Synchronization via interacting reinforcement
Probability
2016-03-08 v1 Statistics Theory
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Statistics Theory
Abstract
We consider a system of urns of Polya-type, with balls of two colors; the reinforcement of each urn depends both on the content of the same urn and on the average content of all urns. We show that the urns synchronize almost surely, in the sense that the fraction of balls of a given color converges almost surely, as the time goes to infinity, to the same limit for all urns. A normal approximation for a large number of urns is also obtained.
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@article{arxiv.1603.01849,
title = {Synchronization via interacting reinforcement},
author = {Paolo Dai Pra and Pierre-Yves Louis and Ida G. Minelli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.01849},
year = {2016}
}