Alternating split of a Poisson process

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Alternately routing a rate- Poisson process produces non-Poisson streams with common interarrival law Erlang. The odd-numbered stream has an initial exponential delay, while the even-numbered stream is an ordinary renewal process. Their equilibrium delay survivor is . The probability of no odd-stream point in is ; for the even stream replace the minus by a plus. Conditioning on the parity of proves these formulas.

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