On the One Dimensional Critical "Learning from Neighbours" Model

Details On the One Dimensional Critical "Learning from Neighbours" Model On the One Dimensional Critical "Learning from Neighbours" Model

2009-07-22

arxiv.org/abs/0907.3828v1

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19 pages, 1 figure

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We consider a model of a discrete time "interacting particle system" on the integer line where infinitely many changes are allowed at each instance of time. We describe the model using chameleons of two different colours, {\it viz}., red ($R$) and blue ($B$). At each instance of time each chameleon performs an independent but identical coin toss experiment with probability $\alpha$ to decide whether to change its colour or not. If the coin lands head then the creature retains its colour (this is to be interpreted as a "success"), otherwise it observes the colours and coin tosses of its two nearest neighbours and changes its colour only if, among its neighbors and including itself, the proportion of successes of the other colour is larger than the proportion of successes of its own colour. This produces a Markov chain with infinite state space ${R, B}^{\Zbold}$. This model was first studied by Chatterjee and Xu (2004) where different colours had different success probabilities. In this work we consider the "critical" case where the success probability, $\alpha$, is the same irrespective of the colour of the chameleon. We show that starting from any initial translation invariant distribution of colours the Markov chain converges to a limit of a single colour, i.e., even at the critical case there is no "coexistence" of the two colours at the limit. Moreover we show that starting with an i.i.d. colour distribution the limiting distribution gives some advantage to the "underdog".

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