Mixing trichotomy for an Ehrenfest urn with impurities
Abstract
We consider a version of the classical Ehrenfest urn model with two urns and two types of balls: regular and heavy. Each ball is selected independently according to a Poisson process having rate for regular balls and rate for heavy balls, and once a ball is selected, is placed in a urn uniformly at random. We study the asymptotic behavior when the total number of balls, , goes to infinity, and the number of heavy ball is set to . We focus on the observable given by the total number of balls in the left urn, which converges to a binomial distribution of parameter , regardless of the choice of the two parameters, and . We study the speed of convergence and show that this can exhibit three different phenomenologies depending on the choice of the two parameters of the model.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2301.06109,
title = {Mixing trichotomy for an Ehrenfest urn with impurities},
author = {Matteo Quattropani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.06109},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
13 pages. Accepted for publication in ECP