Richard Arratia

Richard Alejandro Arratia is a mathematician noted for his work in combinatorics and probability theory.

Contributions

Arratia developed the ideas of interlace polynomials with Béla Bollobás and Gregory Sorkin,[paper 1] found an equivalent formulation of the Stanley–Wilf conjecture as the convergence of a limit,[paper 2] and was the first to investigate the lengths of superpatterns of permutations.[paper 2]

He has also written highly cited papers on the Chen–Stein method on distances between probability distributions,[paper 3][paper 4] on random walks with exclusion,[paper 5] and on sequence alignment.[paper 6][paper 7]

He is a coauthor of the book Logarithmic Combinatorial Structures: A Probabilistic Approach.[book 1][1][2]

Education and employment

Arratia earned his Ph.D. in 1979 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison under the supervision of David Griffeath.[3] He is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of Southern California.[4]

Selected publications
Research papers
  1. Arratia, Richard; Bollobás, Béla; Sorkin, Gregory B. (2004), "The interlace polynomial of a graph", Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 92 (2): 199–233, arXiv:math/0209045, doi:10.1016/j.jctb.2004.03.003, MR 2099142.
  2. Arratia, Richard (1999), "On the Stanley-Wilf conjecture for the number of permutations avoiding a given pattern", Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 6, N1, MR 1710623
  3. Arratia, R.; Goldstein, L.; Gordon, L. (1989), "Two moments suffice for Poisson approximations: the Chen–Stein method" (PDF), Annals of Probability, 17 (1): 9–25, JSTOR 2244193, MR 0972770.
  4. Arratia, Richard; Goldstein, Larry; Gordon, Louis (1990), "Poisson approximation and the Chen–Stein method", Statistical Science, 5 (4): 403–434, doi:10.1214/ss/1177012015, JSTOR 2245366, MR 1092983.
  5. Arratia, Richard (1983), "The motion of a tagged particle in the simple symmetric exclusion system on Z", Annals of Probability, 11 (2): 362–373, JSTOR 2243693, MR 0690134.
  6. Arratia, R.; Gordon, L.; Waterman, M. S. (1990), "The Erdős-Rényi law in distribution, for coin tossing and sequence matching" (PDF), Annals of Statistics, 18 (2): 539–570, doi:10.1214/aos/1176347615, MR 1056326, archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-01.
  7. Arratia, Richard; Waterman, Michael S. (1994), "A phase transition for the score in matching random sequences allowing deletions" (PDF), Annals of Applied Probability, 4 (1): 200–225, doi:10.1214/aoap/1177005208, JSTOR 2245052, MR 1258181, archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-01.
Books
  1. Arratia, Richard; Barbour, A. D.; Tavaré, Simon (2003), Logarithmic Combinatorial Structures: A Probabilistic Approach, EMS Monographs in Mathematics, Zürich: European Mathematical Society, doi:10.4171/000, ISBN 3-03719-000-0, MR 2032426.
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References
  1. Holst, Lars (2004), "Book Reviews: Logarithmic Combinatorial Structures: A Probabilistic Approach", Combinatorics, Probability and Computing, 13 (6): 916–917, doi:10.1017/S0963548304226566.
  2. Stark, Dudley (2005), "Book Reviews: Logarithmic Combinatorial Structures: A Probabilistic Approach", Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 37 (1): 157–158, doi:10.1112/S0024609304224092.
  3. Richard Arratia at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Faculty listing, USC Mathematics, retrieved 2013-06-01.
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