Abstract

Summary. In this paper we consider the component structure of decomposable combi-natorial objects, both labeled and unlabeled, from a probabilistic point of view. In both cases we show that when the generating function for the components of a structure is a logarithmic function, then the joint distribution of the normalized order statistics of the component sizes of a random object of size n converges to the Poisson-Dirichlet distribu-tion on the simplex ∇ = {{xi} : � xi =1,x1 ≥ x2 ≥... ≥ 0}. This result complements recent results obtained by Flajolet and Soria [9] on the total number of components in a random combinatorial structure.

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