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Random dissections and branching processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. F. C. Kingman
J. F. C. Kingman
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University of Bristol
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For a time in the mid-1970s probabilists were tantalized by a seemingly simple problem posed by Araki and Kakutani[3]. An interval is repeatedly divided by points chosen successively at random, the nth point being uniformly distributed over the largest of the n intervals formed by the first n − 1 points. Is this sequence of points asymptotically uniformly distributed?

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 104 , Issue 1 , July 1988 , pp. 147 - 151
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1988

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