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Graph-based Polya's urn: completion of the linear case

Probability 2020-04-21 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Given a finite connected graph GG, place a bin at each vertex. Two bins are called a pair if they share an edge of GG. 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. Previous works proved that when GG is not balanced bipartite, the proportion of balls in the bins converges to a point w(G)w(G) almost surely. We prove almost sure convergence for balanced bipartite graphs: the possible limit is either a single point w(G)w(G) or a closed interval J(G)\mathcal J(G).

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@article{arxiv.1409.7826,
  title  = {Graph-based Polya's urn: completion of the linear case},
  author = {Yuri Lima},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.7826},
  year   = {2020}
}

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12 pages

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