On an urn problem of Paul and Tatiana Ehrenfest

DOI10.1017/S0305004100000694zbMath0406.60002OpenAlexW1975804092MaRDI QIDQ4192723

Lajos Takács

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305004100000694

zbMATH Keywords

Random WalkEhrenfest ModelEigenvalues of Transition MatricesN-Step Transition Probabilities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of probability theory (60-03)

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Cites Work

• Über das Ehrenfestsche Modell der Wärmeübertragung
• Recurrence times for the Ehrenfest model
• Random Walk and the Theory of Brownian Motion
• A simple urn model
• On the Approach to Statistical Equilibrium
• On the Theory of the Brownian Motion II

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