Dirichlet law for factorisation of integers, polynomials and permutations

Abstract

AbstractLet $k \geqslant 2$ be an integer. We prove that factorisation of integers into k parts follows the Dirichlet distribution $\mathrm{Dir}\left({1}/{k},\ldots,{1}/{k}\right)$ by multidimensional contour integration, thereby generalising the Deshouillers–Dress–Tenenbaum (DDT) arcsine law on divisors where $k=2$ . The same holds for factorisation of polynomials or permutations. Dirichlet distribution with arbitrary parameters can be modelled similarly.