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On the number of cycles in a random permutation

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Article number20
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>27/05/2012
<mark>Journal</mark>Electronic Communications in Probability
Volume17
Number of pages13
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

We show that the number of cycles in a random permutation chosen according to generalized Ewens measure is normally distributed and compute asymptotic estimates for the mean and variance.

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