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The work of Kingman and others shows how the theory of exchangeable random partitions and associated random discrete distributions provides a natural mathematical framework for the analysis of coagulation processes (also called coalescents) and fragmentation processes.
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Pitman, J. (2006). Coagulation and fragmentation processes. In: Picard, J. (eds) Combinatorial Stochastic Processes. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1875. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-34266-4_6
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