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The purpose of this work is to describe a duality betweena fragmentationassociated to certain Dirichlet distributions and a natural randomcoagulation. The dualfragmentation and coalescent chains arising in this settingappear in thedescription of the genealogy of Yule processes.
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Bertoin, J., Goldschmidt, C. (2004). Dual Random Fragmentation and Coagulation and an Application to the Genealogy of Yule Processes. In: Drmota, M., Flajolet, P., Gardy, D., Gittenberger, B. (eds) Mathematics and Computer Science III. Trends in Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7915-6_31
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