@article{bibcite_14956, author = {Zbigniew Pucha{\l}a and T. Rolski}, title = {The exact asymptotic of the time to collision}, abstract = {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.}, year = {2005}, journal = {Electronic Journal of Probability}, volume = {10}, number = {40}, pages = {1359{\textendash}1380}, month = {11}, note = {IF=0.676(2006);}, language = {eng}, }