Spencer's conjecture on infinitely recurring bin orderings
Consider a balls-in-bins process with feedback function in the almost-balanced regime. Here , and ranges over all permutations of . Spencer's conjecture. For every permutation of and every initial condition, with probability there are infinitely many such that
Equivalently, every possible ordering of the bins occurs infinitely often almost surely. The conjecture concerns the almost-balanced regime and asks whether the process visits every strict ordering infinitely often, regardless of its initial state; the supplied text gives no resolution.
References
Primary source
Roberto Oliveira, “Balls-in-bins with feedback and Brownian Motion”, arXiv:math/0510648 (2005).
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