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Counting Vertices in a Voter-type Model

Probability 2013-11-20 v1

Abstract

The Neighborhood Attack model is a Voter type model, which takes a finite graph, assigns 1's and -1's to its nodes (vertices), and then runs a Markov chain on the graph by uniformly at random picking a node at every turn, and then switching the values of the node and its neighbors to 1's or -1's according to a (not necessarily fair) coin toss. We show, via a Stein's method argument, that for certain (highly symmetric) families of graphs the number of 1's in the Neighbourhood Attack Voter-type model is asymptotically normally distributed as the number of nodes tends to infinity.

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@article{arxiv.1311.4807,
  title  = {Counting Vertices in a Voter-type Model},
  author = {Radoslav Marinov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.4807},
  year   = {2013}
}
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