@inbook{csp-prelims, title = {Combinatorial Stochastic Processes: Preliminaries}, author = {Jim Pitman}, booktitle = {Combinatorial Stochastic Processes}, chapter = {0}, pages = {1--11}, publisher = {Springer-Verlag}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-34266-4_1}, year = {2006}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2f481eec77b4d1a9ff492e9070e0ba465/pitman}, description = {SpringerLink - Book Chapter}, abstract = {This is a collection of expository articles about various topics at the interface between enumerative combinatorics and stochastic processes. These articles expand on a course of lectures given at the Ecole d'Et\'e de Probabilits de St. Flour in July 2002. The articles are also called "chapters". Each chapter is fairly self-contained, so readers with adequate background can startreading any chapter, with occasional consultation of earlier chapters as necessary. Following this Chapter 0, there are 11 chapters, each divided into sections. Most sections conclude with some Exercises. Those for which I don't know solutions are called Problems.}, keywords = {Brownian_excursion Dept_Mathematics_Berkeley Dept_Statistics_Berkeley author_Pitman__Jim combinatorial_stochastic_process stable_subordinator } }