Expected Number of Distinct Part Sizes in a Random Integer Composition

  • Authors:
  • P. Hitczenko;G. Stengle

  • Affiliations:
  • MCS Department, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA (e-mail: phitczen@mcs.drexel.edu);Department of Mathematics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA (e-mail: gas0@lehigh.edu)

  • Venue:
  • Combinatorics, Probability and Computing
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

An asymptotics, as n → ∞, for the expected number of distinct part sizes in a random composition of an integer n is obtained.