What distributions arise as the distribution of the distance between two typical points in some measured metric space? This seems to be a surprisingly subtle problem. We conjecture that every distribution with a density function whose support contains $0$ does arise in this way, and give some partial results in that direction.
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Aldous et al. (2024) studied this question.
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