Timeline for Expected number of compositions needed to get constant function
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| Dec 3, 2021 at 17:32 | comment | added | esg | Indeed, most of these results had already been obtained (in a slightly different guise) by J.F.C. Kingman in 1982, see inference.org.uk/sustainable/… . A generalization to more general distributions was given in arxiv.org/pdf/0809.4233.pdf | |
| Dec 1, 2021 at 19:35 | comment | added | Sam Hopkins | In this paper, the result is claimed to be folklore: arxiv.org/abs/math/0207276 | |
| Dec 1, 2021 at 19:33 | history | edited | Emil Jeřábek | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
link to a page with useful information instead of just a direct pdf link
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| Dec 1, 2021 at 19:14 | comment | added | Sam Hopkins | In particular, the belief that the expected value is $(2+o(1))n$ is correct and was in fact proved earlier by Dalal and Schmutz (doi.org/10.37236/1642). I do wonder if the natural $q$-analog of this question has been looked into as well... | |
| Dec 1, 2021 at 19:13 | vote | accept | Sam Hopkins | ||
| Dec 1, 2021 at 19:12 | history | answered | esg | CC BY-SA 4.0 |