Winning combinations of history-dependent games
Condensed Matter
2009-11-07 v2
Abstract
The Parrondo effect describes the seemingly paradoxical situation in which two losing games can, when combined, become winning [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 24 (2000)]. Here we generalize this analysis to the case where both games are history-dependent, i.e. there is an intrinsic memory in the dynamics of each game. New results are presented for the cases of both random and periodic switching between the two games.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0207386,
title = {Winning combinations of history-dependent games},
author = {Roland J. Kay and Neil F. Johnson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0207386},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
(6 pages, 7 figures) Version 2: Major cosmetic changes and some minor corrections