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Models of competitive learning: complex dynamics, intermittent conversions and oscillatory coarsening

Statistical Mechanics 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We present two models of competitive learning, which are respectively interfacial and cooperative learning. This learning is outcome-related, so that spatially and temporally local environments influence the conversion of a given site between one of two different types. We focus here on the behavior of the models at coexistence, which yields new critical behavior and the existence of a phase involving a novel type of coarsening which is oscillatory in nature.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9908173,
  title  = {Models of competitive learning: complex dynamics, intermittent conversions and oscillatory coarsening},
  author = {Anita Mehta and J. M. Luck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9908173},
  year   = {2009}
}

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23 pages, 11 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. E