Paradoxical games and a minimal model for a Brownian motor
- 13 January 2005
- journal article
- Published by American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) in American Journal of Physics
- Vol. 73 (2) , 178-183
- https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1801191
Abstract
I give an extended analysis of the very simple game that I previously published that shows the paradoxical behavior whereby two losing games randomly combine to form a winning game. The game, modeled on a random walk, requires only two states and is described by a first-order Markov process.Keywords
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