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On the number of cycles in a random permutation

arXiv:1203.4132 · doi:10.1214/ECP.v17-1934

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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