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Another Look at the Ehrenfest Urn Via Electric Networks

Part of: Combinatorial probability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

José Luis Palacios
José Luis Palacios*
Affiliation:
Universidad Simón Bolívar
*
* Postal address: Universidad Simón Bolívar, Departamento de Matemáticas, Apartado 89,000, Caracas, Venezuela.
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Abstract

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Using the electric network approach, we give closed-form formulas for the expected hitting times in the Ehrenfest urn model.

Keywords

FIRST PASSAGEEFFECTIVE RESISTANCE

MSC classification

Primary: 60C05: Combinatorial probability

Information

Type
Letters to the Editor
Information
Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , September 1994 , pp. 820 - 824
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1994 

Footnotes

Part of this work was done while the author was with the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

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