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arxiv: 1703.05564 · v4 · pith:FFVVQ45Anew · submitted 2017-03-16 · 🧮 math.PR

Jante's law process

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Consider the process which starts with $N\ge 3$ distinct points on ${\mathbb R}^d$, and fix a positive integer~$K<N$. Of the total $N$ points keep those $N-K$ which minimize the energy (defined as the sum of all pairwise distances squared) amongst all the possible subsets of size $N-K$, and then replace the removed points by $K$ i.i.d.\ points sampled according to some fixed distribution $\zeta$. Repeat this process ad infinitum. We obtain various quite non-restrictive conditions under which the set of points converges to a certain limit. This is a very substantial generalization of the "Keynesian beauty contest process" studied by Grinfeld, Volkov and Wade, where $K=1$ and the distribution $\zeta$ was uniform on the unit cube.

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