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We complete the study of the model introduced in [11]. It is a two-color urn model with multiple drawing and random (non-balanced) time-dependent reinforcement matrix. The number of sampled balls at each time-step is random. We identify the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-05 Irene Crimaldi , Pierre-Yves Louis , Ida G. Minelli

In 1981, Karp and Sipser proved a law of large numbers for the matching number of a sparse Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph, in an influential paper pioneering the so-called differential equation method for analysis of random graph processes.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Margalit Glasgow , Matthew Kwan , Ashwin Sah , Mehtaab Sawhney

We study information aggregation in networks when agents interact to learn a binary state of the world. Initially each agent privately observes an independent signal which is "correct" with probability $\frac{1}{2}+\delta$ for some $\delta…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Divyarthi Mohan , Pawel Pralat

We consider the following distributed consensus problem: Each node in a complete communication network of size $n$ initially holds an \emph{opinion}, which is chosen arbitrarily from a finite set $\Sigma$. The system must converge toward a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Luca Becchetti , Andrea Clementi , Emanuele Natale , Francesco Pasquale , Luca Trevisan

The "majority dynamics" process on a social network begins with an initial phase, where the individuals are split into two competing parties, Red and Blue. Every day, everyone updates their affiliation to match the majority among those of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-26 BaoLinh Tran , Van Vu

Let $G$ be a directed graph such that the in-degree of any vertex $G$ is at least one. Let also ${\mathcal{\tau}}: V(G)\rightarrow \Bbb{N}$ be an assignment of thresholds to the vertices of $G$. A subset $M$ of vertices of $G$ is called a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-18 Kaveh Khoshkhah , Hossein Soltani , Manouchehr Zaker

An $(\alpha,\beta)$-ruling set of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a set $R\subseteq V$ such that for any node $v\in V$ there is a node $u\in R$ in distance at most $\beta$ from $v$ and such that any two nodes in $R$ are at distance at least $\alpha$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Fabian Kuhn , Yannic Maus , Simon Weidner

The free central-limit theorem, a fundamental theorem in free probability, states that empirical averages of freely independent random variables are asymptotically semi-circular. We extend this theorem to general dynamical systems of…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Morgane Austern

A set $S\subseteq V$ is a dominating set of $G$ if every vertex in $V - S$ is adjacent to at least one vertex in $S$. The domination number $\gamma(G)$ of $G$ equals the minimum cardinality of a dominating set $S$ in $G$; we say that such a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-10 Benjamin M. Case , Stephen T. Hedetniemi , Renu C. Laskar , Drew J. Lipman

The \emph{Undecided-State Dynamics} is a well-known protocol for distributed consensus. We analyze it in the parallel \pull\ communication model on the complete graph for the \emph{binary} case (every node can either support one of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Andrea E. F. Clementi , Luciano Gualà , Francesco Pasquale , Giacomo Scornavacca , Emanuele Natale , Mohsen Ghaffari

An urn contains balls of d colors. At each time, a ball is drawn and then replaced together with a random number of balls of the same color. Assuming that some colors are dominated by others, we prove central limit theorems. Some…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-07-06 Patrizia Berti , Irene Crimaldi , Luca Pratelli , Pietro Rigo

We study here the problem of determining the majority type in an arbitrary connected network, each vertex of which has initially two possible types. The vertices may have a few additional possible states and can interact in pairs only if…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-01 George B. Mertzios , Sotiris E. Nikoletseas , Christoforos L. Raptopoulos , Paul G. Spirakis

Given a positive integer $n$, consider a random permutation $\tau$ of the set $\{1,2,\ldots, n\}$. In $\tau$, we look for sequences of consecutive integers that appear in adjacent positions: a maximal such a sequence is called a block. Each…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Shane Chern , Lin Jiu , Italo Simonelli

Emergence of dominating cliques in Erd\"os-R\'enyi random graph model ${\bbbg(n,p)}$ is investigated in this paper. It is shown this phenomenon possesses a phase transition. Namely, we have argued that, given a constant probability $p$, an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-05-15 Martin Nehez , Daniel Olejar , Michal Demetrian

We consider a variant of the randomly reinforced urn where more balls can be simultaneously drawn out and balls of different colors can be simultaneously added. More precisely, at each time-step, the conditional distribution of the number…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-07-09 Irene Crimaldi

A voter sits on each vertex of an infinite tree of degree $k$, and has to decide between two alternative opinions. At each time step, each voter switches to the opinion of the majority of her neighbors. We analyze this majority process when…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-12-30 Yashodhan Kanoria , Andrea Montanari

In this paper, we study the following problem. Consider a setting where a proposal is offered to the vertices of a given network $G$, and the vertices must conduct a vote and decide whether to accept the proposal or reject it. Each vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-01 Pavel Chebotarev , David Peleg

Building on recent work by Medvedev (2014) we establish new connections between a basic consensus model, called the voting model, and the theory of graph limits. We show that in the voting model if consensus is attained in the continuum…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-02-18 Barton E. Lee

In this paper we consider a dynamic version of the Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi random graph, in which edges independently appear and disappear in time, with the on- and off times being exponentially distributed. The focus lies on the evolution of…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Rajat Subhra Hazra , Nikolai Kriukov , Michel Mandjes

We prove a Central Limit Theorem for the proportion of infected individuals for an epidemic model by dealing with a discrete time system of simple random walks on a complete graph with n vertices. Each random walk makes a role of a virus.…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-11-17 F. Machado , H. Mashurian , H. Matzinger