A generalized P\'olya's Urn with graph based interactions: convergence at linearity
Abstract
We consider a special case of the generalized P\'{o}lya's urn model introduced by Benaim et al (2013). Given a finite connected graph , place a bin at each vertex. Two bins are called a pair if they share an edge of . At discrete times, a ball is added to each pair of bins. In a pair of bins, one of the bins gets the ball with probability proportional to its current number of balls. A question of essential interest for the model is to understand the limiting behavior of the proportion of balls in the bins for different graphs . In this paper, we present two results regarding this question. If is not balanced-bipartite, we prove that the proportion of balls converges to some deterministic point almost surely. If is regular bipartite, we prove that the proportion of balls converges to a point in some explicit interval almost surely. The question of convergence remains open in the case when is non-regular balanced-bipartite (see a final remark in the paper).
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@article{arxiv.1306.5465,
title = {A generalized P\'olya's Urn with graph based interactions: convergence at linearity},
author = {Jun Chen and Cyrille Lucas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.5465},
year = {2014}
}
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13 pages