Asymptotics of generalized Pólya urns with non-linear feedback
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| author | Gottfried, Thomas Grosskinsky, Stefan |
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| contents | Generalized Pólya urns with non-linear feedback are an established probabilistic model to describe the dynamics of growth processes with reinforcement, a generic example being competition of agents in evolving markets. It is well known which conditions on the feedback mechanism lead to monopoly where a single agent achieves full market share, and various further results for particular feedback mechanisms have been derived from different perspectives. In this paper we provide a comprehensive account of the possible asymptotic behaviour for a large general class of feedback, and describe in detail how monopolies emerge in a transition from sub-linear to super-linear feedback via hierarchical states close to linearity. We further distinguish super- and sub-exponential feedback, which show conceptually interesting differences to understand the monopoly case, and study robustness of the asymptotics with respect to initial conditions, heterogeneities and small changes of the feedback mechanisms. Finally, we derive a scaling limit for the full time evolution of market shares in the limit of diverging initial market size, including the description of typical fluctuations and extending previous results in the context of stochastic approximation. |
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| spellingShingle | Asymptotics of generalized Pólya urns with non-linear feedback Gottfried, Thomas Grosskinsky, Stefan Probability 60J05, 60F17, 62L20, 91B62 Generalized Pólya urns with non-linear feedback are an established probabilistic model to describe the dynamics of growth processes with reinforcement, a generic example being competition of agents in evolving markets. It is well known which conditions on the feedback mechanism lead to monopoly where a single agent achieves full market share, and various further results for particular feedback mechanisms have been derived from different perspectives. In this paper we provide a comprehensive account of the possible asymptotic behaviour for a large general class of feedback, and describe in detail how monopolies emerge in a transition from sub-linear to super-linear feedback via hierarchical states close to linearity. We further distinguish super- and sub-exponential feedback, which show conceptually interesting differences to understand the monopoly case, and study robustness of the asymptotics with respect to initial conditions, heterogeneities and small changes of the feedback mechanisms. Finally, we derive a scaling limit for the full time evolution of market shares in the limit of diverging initial market size, including the description of typical fluctuations and extending previous results in the context of stochastic approximation. |
| title | Asymptotics of generalized Pólya urns with non-linear feedback |
| topic | Probability 60J05, 60F17, 62L20, 91B62 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01210 |