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A generalized P\'olya's Urn with graph based interactions: convergence at linearity

Probability 2014-10-06 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We consider a special case of the generalized P\'{o}lya's urn model introduced by Benaim et al (2013). Given a finite connected graph GG, place a bin at each vertex. Two bins are called a pair if they share an edge of GG. At discrete times, a ball is added to each pair of bins. In a pair of bins, one of the bins gets the ball with probability proportional to its current number of balls. A question of essential interest for the model is to understand the limiting behavior of the proportion of balls in the bins for different graphs GG. In this paper, we present two results regarding this question. If GG is not balanced-bipartite, we prove that the proportion of balls converges to some deterministic point v=v(G)v=v(G) almost surely. If GG is regular bipartite, we prove that the proportion of balls converges to a point in some explicit interval almost surely. The question of convergence remains open in the case when GG is non-regular balanced-bipartite (see a final remark in the paper).

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@article{arxiv.1306.5465,
  title  = {A generalized P\'olya's Urn with graph based interactions: convergence at linearity},
  author = {Jun Chen and Cyrille Lucas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.5465},
  year   = {2014}
}

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13 pages

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