Alm, Erik. S and Sorkin, Gregory B. 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4935-7820
(2002)
Exact expectations and distributions for the random assignment problem.
Combinatorics, Probability and Computing, 11 (3).
pp. 217-248.
ISSN 0963-5483
Abstract
A generalization of the random assignment problem asks the expected cost of the minimum-cost matching of cardinality k in a complete bipartite graph Km,n, with independent random edge weights. With weights drawn from the exponential distribution with intensity 1, the answer has been conjectured to be Σi,j[greater-than-or-equal]0, i+j<k1/(m−i)(n−j). Here, we prove the conjecture for k [less-than-or-eq, slant] 4, k = m = 5, and k = m = n = 6, using a structured, automated proof technique that results in proofs with relatively few cases. The method yields not only the minimum assignment cost's expectation but the Laplace transform of its distribution as well. From the Laplace transform we compute the variance in these cases, and conjecture that, with k = m = n [rightward arrow] [infty infinity], the variance is 2/n + O(log n/n2). We also include some asymptotic properties of the expectation and variance when k is fixed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJourna... |
| Divisions: | Management |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Apr 2011 14:24 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 21:35 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/35494 |
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