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Random permutations with prime lengths of cycles
A. N. Timashev Institute of Cryptography, Communications and Informatics, Academy of Federal Security Service of Russian Federation, Moscow
Abstract:
A set of
$n$th order permutations with prime lengths of cycles is considered. An asymptotic estimate for the number of all such permutations is obtained as
$n\to\infty.$ Given a uniform distribution on the set of such permutations of order
$n$, a local limit theorem is proved, evaluating the distribution of the number of cycles
$\nu_n$ in a permutation selected at random. This theorem implies, in particular, that the random variable
$\nu_n$ is asymptotically normal with parameters (
$\log\log n$,
$\log\log n$) as
$n\to\infty$. It is shown that the random variable
$\nu_n(p)$, the number of cycles of a fixed length
$p$ in such a permutation (
$p$ is a prime number), has in the limit a Poisson distribution with parameter
${1}/{p}.$ Assuming that a permutation of order
$n$ is selected in accordance with the uniform distribution from the set of all such permutations with prime cycle lengths, each of which has exactly
$N$ cycles
$(1\le N\le[{n}/{2}]),$ limit theorems are proved, evaluating the distribution of the random variable
$\mu_p(n, N),$ the number of cycles of prime length
$p$ in this permutation. The results mentioned are established by means of the asymptotic law for the distribution of prime numbers and the saddle-point method as well as the generalized allocation scheme.
Received: 04.03.2014
Revised: 26.05.2015
DOI:
10.4213/tvp5060