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Part II, 2017
(a) Define the Moran model and Kingman's -coalescent. Define Kingman's infinite coalescent.
Show that Kingman's infinite coalescent comes down from infinity. In other words, with probability one, the number of blocks of is finite at any time .
(b) Give the definition of a renewal process.
Let denote the sequence of inter-arrival times of the renewal process . Suppose that .
Prove that as .
Prove that for some strictly positive .
[Hint: Consider the renewal process with inter-arrival times for some suitable .]