Time-dependent P\'olya urn
Probability
2018-07-16 v1
Abstract
We consider a time-dependent version of a P\'olya urn containing black and white balls. At each time a ball is drawn from the urn at random and replaced in the urn along with additional balls of the same colour. The proportion of white balls converges almost surely to a random limit , and denotes the event when one of the colours dominates. The phase transition, in terms of the sequence , between the regimes and was obtained by R. Pemantle in 1990. We describe the phase transition between the cases and . Further, we study the stronger monopoly event when one of the colours eventually stops reappearing, and analyse the phase transition between the regimes , , and .
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@article{arxiv.1807.04844,
title = {Time-dependent P\'olya urn},
author = {Nadia Sidorova},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.04844},
year = {2018}
}