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Jante's law process

Probability 2018-03-22 v4

Abstract

Consider the process which starts with N3N\ge 3 distinct points on Rd{\mathbb R}^d, and fix a positive integer~K<NK<N. Of the total NN points keep those NKN-K which minimize the energy (defined as the sum of all pairwise distances squared) amongst all the possible subsets of size NKN-K, and then replace the removed points by KK i.i.d.\ points sampled according to some fixed distribution ζ\zeta. Repeat this process ad infinitum. We obtain various quite non-restrictive conditions under which the set of points converges to a certain limit. This is a very substantial generalization of the "Keynesian beauty contest process" studied by Grinfeld, Volkov and Wade, where K=1K=1 and the distribution ζ\zeta was uniform on the unit cube.

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@article{arxiv.1703.05564,
  title  = {Jante's law process},
  author = {Philip Kennerberg and Stanislav Volkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.05564},
  year   = {2018}
}
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