The Blind Passenger and the Assignment Problem
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2011

We introduce a discrete random process which we call the passenger model, and show that it is connected to a certain random model of the assignment problem and in particular to the so-called Buck-Chan-Robbins urn process. We propose a conjecture on the distribution of the location of the minimum cost assignment in a cost matrix with zeros at specified positions and remaining entries of exponential distribution. The conjecture is consistent with earlier results on the participation probability of an individual matrix entry. We also use the passenger model to verify a conjecture by V. Dotsenko on the assignment problem.

expected value

proof

zeta(2) limit

conjecture

traveling salesman

minimum assignment

Författare

Johan Wästlund

Chalmers, Matematiska vetenskaper, Matematik

Göteborgs universitet

Combinatorics Probability and Computing

0963-5483 (ISSN) 1469-2163 (eISSN)

Vol. 20 3 467-480

Ämneskategorier

Beräkningsmatematik

DOI

10.1017/s0963548311000022

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2017-10-06