Multipopulation Spin Models: A View from Large Deviations Theoretic Window

Alex Akwasi Opoku and Godwin Osabutey

Journal of Mathematics, 2018, vol. 2018, 1-13

Abstract:

This paper studies large deviations properties of vectors of empirical means and measures generated as follows. Consider a sequence of independent and identically distributed random variables partitioned into - subgroups with sizes . Further, consider a - dimensional vector whose coordinates are made up of the empirical means of the subgroups. We prove the following. The sequence of vector of empirical means satisfies large deviations principle with rate and rate function , when the sequence is valued, with . Similar large deviations results hold for the corresponding sequence of vector of empirical measures if ’s, , take on finitely many values. The rate functions for the above large deviations principles are convex combinations of the corresponding rate functions arising from the large deviations principles of the coordinates of and . The probability distributions used in the convex combinations are given by These results are consequently used to derive variational formula for the thermodynamic limit for the pressure of multipopulation Curie-Weiss (I. Gallo and P. Contucci (2008), and I. Gallo (2009)) and mean-field Pott’s models, via a version of Varadhan’s integral lemma for an equicontinuous family of functions. These multipopulation models serve as a paradigm for decision-making context where social interaction and other socioeconomic attributes of individuals play a crucial role.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1155/2018/9417547

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