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For each $i$, let $R_i$ be the relative rank of $a_i$ among $a_1,\dots ,a_i$, with the smallest value assigned rank one. Then $Y_i=1_{\{R_i=1\}}$. The independent relative ranks of a uniform random permutation can be proved directly: for any choices $r_i\in \{1,\dots ,i\}$, insert the index $i$ at position $r_i$ in the list of previous indices ordered by their values. After all insertions, assign the values $1,\dots ,n$ along that list. This is a unique permutation with those relative ranks, and conversely every permutation yields one such insertion sequence.

There are ${\prod }_{i=1}^{n}i=n!$ possible insertion sequences, all equally likely because the uniform random permutation is uniform. ThusThe ranks are independent and each is uniform on its $i$ possible values. It follows that the independent record indicators haveThe first indicator is the constant one, which is also independent of the others. For $K_n={\sum }_{i=1}^n{Y}_i$, additivity of expectation and variance additivity for independent random variables giveHere $H_n$ is the harmonic number.

Let $T$ be the year index of the second record. For $2\le i\le n$, independence givesThe empty product for $i=2$ is one. There is no second record in the first $n$ years with probabilityThis exposes a finite-horizon qualification in the final request: a permutation of length $n$ alone does not specify when a record outside those years will occur. Under the usual continuation by an infinite sequence of independent, identically distributed observations with a continuous distribution, the same relative-rank argument holds for every finite prefix. Then $P(T=i)=1/[i(i-1)]$ for every $i\ge 2$, and $P(T>m)=1/m$. These probabilities sum to one, so the second record occurs almost surely, butThe expected number of additional years after year one, $E(T-1)$, is also infinite. This is the first-sample case of the waiting time for a new record after a fixed sample.

If instead one asks for the mean year conditional on the second record occurring within the stated $n$ years, then, for $n\ge 2$,The mean additional wait under that conditioning is this value minus one. These are distinct questions: assigning $T=\infty$ whenever no second record occurs in the finite horizon also gives an infinite unconditional mean, whereas a censored observation $\min (T,n)$ has finite expectation $1+H_{n-1}$ by the tail-sum formula for expectation.