The asymptotics of group Russian roulette
Probability
2017-05-02 v2
Abstract
We study the group Russian roulette problem, also known as the shooting problem, defined as follows. We have armed people in a room. At each chime of a clock, everyone shoots a random other person. The persons shot fall dead and the survivors shoot again at the next chime. Eventually, either everyone is dead or there is a single survivor. We prove that the probability of having no survivors does not converge as , and becomes asymptotically periodic and continuous on the scale, with period 1.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1507.03805,
title = {The asymptotics of group Russian roulette},
author = {Tim van de Brug and Wouter Kager and Ronald Meester},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.03805},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
26 pages, 1 figure; Mathematica notebook and output file (calculated exact bounds) are included with the source files