Jante's law process
Probability
2018-03-22 v4
Abstract
Consider the process which starts with distinct points on , and fix a positive integer~. Of the total points keep those which minimize the energy (defined as the sum of all pairwise distances squared) amongst all the possible subsets of size , and then replace the removed points by i.i.d.\ points sampled according to some fixed distribution . 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 and the distribution was uniform on the unit cube.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1703.05564,
title = {Jante's law process},
author = {Philip Kennerberg and Stanislav Volkov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.05564},
year = {2018}
}