Parrondo games with spatial dependence and a related spin system

zbMATH Open1300.60110arXiv1203.0818MaRDI QIDQ2866533FDOQ2866533

Authors: Stewart N. Ethier, Jiyeon Lee 

Publication date: 13 December 2013

Published in: Markov Processes and Related Fields (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Toral introduced so-called cooperative Parrondo games, in which there are N players (3 or more) arranged in a circle. At each turn one player is randomly chosen to play. He plays either game A or game B, depending on the strategy. Game A results in a win or loss of one unit based on the toss of a fair coin. Game B results in a win or loss of one unit based on the toss of a biased coin, with the amount of the bias depending on whether none, one, or two of the player's two nearest neighbors have won their most recent games. Game A is fair, so the games are said to exhibit the Parrondo effect if game B is losing or fair and the random mixture C:=(1/2)(A+B) is winning. With mu_B (resp., mu_C) denoting the mean profit per turn to the ensemble of N players always playing game B (resp., C), we give sufficient conditions for lim mu_B (as N goes to infinity) to exist and show that lim mu_C nearly always exists, with the limits expressible in terms of a parameterized spin system on the one-dimensional integer lattice. For a particular choice of the parameters, we show that the Parrondo effect (i.e., mu_B is nonpositive and mu_C is positive) is present in the N-player model if and only if N is even. For the same choice of the parameters, we show that, with a suitable interpretation and for certain initial distributions, the Parrondo effect is present in the spin system if and only if N is even, N being the number of consecutive players whose collective profit is tracked.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.0818

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zbMATH Keywords

ergodicitystrong law of large numbersdualityspin systemstationary distributioninteracting particle systemParrondo's paradoxdiscrete-time Markov chaincooperative Parrondo games

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Cooperative games (91A12) (n)-person games, (n>2) (91A06) Probabilistic games; gambling (91A60)

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