Strong convergence of infinite color balanced urns under uniform ergodicity

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Abstract: We consider the generalization of the P'olya urn scheme with possibly infinite many colors as introduced in cite{Th-Thesis, BaTH2014, BaTh2016, BaTh2017}. For countable many colors, we prove almost sure convergence of the urn configuration under emph{uniform ergodicity} assumption on the associated Markov chain. The proof uses a stochastic coupling of the sequence of chosen colors with a emph{branching Markov chain} on a weighted emph{random recursive tree} as described in cite{BaTh2017, Sv_2018}. Using this coupling we estimate the covariance between any two selected colors. In particular, we reprove the limit theorem for the classical urn models with finitely many colors.



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