A time-dependent version of Pólya's urn

A process is defined that consists of drawing balls from an urn and replacing them along with extra balls. The process generalizes the well-knownPólya urn process. It is shown that the proportion of red balls in the urn converges to a random limit that may have a nonzero probability of being 0 or 1, but is nonatomic elsewhere.

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