TY - JOUR AU - Zbigniew Puchała AU - T. Rolski AB - Abstract In this note we consider the time of the collision $tau$ for $n$ independent copies of Markov processes $X^1_t,. . .,X^n_t$, each starting from $x_i$,where $x_1 t) = t^{-n(n-1)/4}(Ch(x)+o(1)),$ where $C$ is known and $h(x)$ is the Vandermonde determinant. From the proof one can see that the result also holds for $X_t$ being the Brownian motion or the Poisson process. An application to skew standard Young tableaux is given. BT - Electronic Journal of Probability DA - 11 LA - eng M1 - 40 N1 - IF=0.676(2006); N2 - Abstract In this note we consider the time of the collision $tau$ for $n$ independent copies of Markov processes $X^1_t,. . .,X^n_t$, each starting from $x_i$,where $x_1 t) = t^{-n(n-1)/4}(Ch(x)+o(1)),$ where $C$ is known and $h(x)$ is the Vandermonde determinant. From the proof one can see that the result also holds for $X_t$ being the Brownian motion or the Poisson process. An application to skew standard Young tableaux is given. PY - 2005 EP - 1359–1380 T2 - Electronic Journal of Probability TI - The exact asymptotic of the time to collision VL - 10 ER -