The rencontre problem

F. Thomas Bruss, Philip A. Ernst, Dongzhou Huang

Let ${\left\{X_k^1\right\}}_{k=1}^{\infty },{\left\{X_k^2\right\}}_{k=1}^{\infty },\cdots ,{\left\{X_k^d\right\}}_{k=1}^{\infty }$ be $d$ independent sequences of Bernoulli random v…