Loaded dice with a uniformly distributed sum
Show that if a sum of two independent integer random variables is uniform on its support, then each summand is uniform on its own support.
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Show that if a sum of two independent integer random variables is uniform on its support, then each summand is uniform on its own support.
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Prove that the deficit of maximal flow through oriented bond percolation behaves like sqrt(2(1 − p)) as p tends to 1.
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Prove that the optimal expected cost of building a spanning tree online, with random edge weights, converges, and find the limit.
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Find the limiting probability that the largest roots of a random polynomial with Gaussian coefficients are all real.
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Prove that two competing growth processes on the lattice cannot both grow forever when their speeds differ.
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Decide whether planar regions merging with neighbours at a constant rate form an infinite region in finite time.
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Pin down the constant γ in the expected longest common subsequence γn of two random binary strings, rigorously between 0.79266 and 0.82628.
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Narrow the constant β in the length β√n of the shortest tour through n random points, rigorously between 0.6277 and 0.8810.
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