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A local barycentric version of the Bak-Sneppen model

Probability 2020-09-28 v3

Abstract

We study the behaviour of the interacting particle system, arising from the Bak-Sneppen model and Jante's law process. Let NN vertices be placed on a circle, such that each vertex has exactly two neighbours. To each vertex assign a real number, called {\em fitness}. Now find the vertex which fitness deviates most from the average of the fitnesses of its two immediate neighbours (in case of a tie, draw uniformly among such vertices), and replace it by a random value drawn independently according to some distribution ζ\zeta. We show that in case where ζ\zeta is a uniform or a discrete uniform distribution, all the fitnesses except one converge to the same value.

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@article{arxiv.1906.06098,
  title  = {A local barycentric version of the Bak-Sneppen model},
  author = {Philip Kennerberg and Stanislav Volkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.06098},
  year   = {2020}
}