A generalized Pólya's urn with graph based interactions

نویسندگان

  • Michel Benaïm
  • Itai Benjamini
  • Jun Chen
  • Yuri Lima
چکیده

We consider a special case of the generalized Pólya’s urn model introduced in [3]. Given a finite connected graph G, place a bin at each vertex. Two bins are called a pair if they share an edge of G. 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 G. In this paper, we present two results regarding this question. If G is not balancedbipartite, we prove that the proportion of balls converges to some deterministic point v = v(G) almost surely. If G 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 G is non-regular balanced-bipartite.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Random Struct. Algorithms

دوره 46  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015