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Metrics on sets of interval partitions with diversity

Abstract

We first consider interval partitions whose complements are Lebesgue-null and introduce a complete metric that induces the same topology as the Hausdorff distance (between complements). This is done using correspondences between intervals. Further restricting to interval partitions with $\alpha $-diversity, we then adjust the metric to incorporate diversities. We show that this second metric space is Lusin. An important feature of this topology is that path-continuity in this topology implies the continuous evolution of diversities. This is important in related work on tree-valued stochastic processes where diversities are branch lengths.

Authors

Forman N; Pal S; Rizzolo D; Winkel M

Journal

Electronic Communications in Probability, Vol. 25, No. none,

Publisher

Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Publication Date

January 1, 2020

DOI

10.1214/20-ecp317

ISSN

1083-589X
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