id: 04161766 dt: j an: 04161766 au: Rousseau, C.C. ti: A simply obtained asymptotic expansion for the probability that a random mapping is connected. so: Appl. Math. Lett. 2, No.2, 159-161 (1989). py: 1989 pu: Elsevier Science Ltd. (Pergamon), Oxford la: EN cc: ut: random mapping; asymptotic expansions; probability of connectedness ci: li: doi:10.1016/0893-9659(89)90012-8 ab: A mapping f of the set $V=\{1,2,...,n\}$ into itself is selected at random from the set of all such mappings with probability $n\sp{-n}$. The author obtains asymptotic expansions for the probability of connectedness of the corresponding graph $G\sb f=(V$, $\{$ (i,f(i)); $i\in V\})$ and for its expected number of components. rv: L.Mutafchiev