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Exact Solution to the Chow-Robbins Game for almost all n,...
John H. Elton · 2022-05-27 · via math.PR updates on arXiv.org

The payoff in the Chow-Robbins coin-tossing game is the proportion of heads when you stop. Knowing when to stop to maximize expectation was addressed by Chow and Robbins(1965), who proved there exist integers ${k_n}$ such that it is optimal to stop when heads minus tails reaches this. Finding ${k_n}$ exactly was unsolved except for finitely many cases by computer. We show ${k_n} = \left\lceil {α\sqrt n \,\, - 1/2\,\, + \,\,\frac{{\left( { - 2ζ( - 1/2)} \right)\sqrt α}}{\sqrt π}{n^{ - 1/4}}} \right\rceil$ for almost all n, where $α$ is the Shepp-Walker constant.This comes from our estimate ${β_n} = α\sqrt n \,\, - 1/2\,\, + \,\,\frac{{\left( { - 2ζ( - 1/2)} \right)\sqrt α}}{\sqrt π}{n^{ - 1/4}} + O\left( {n^{ - 7/24}} \right)$ of real numbers defined by Dvoretzky(1967) for a more general Value function which is continuous in its first argument and easier to analyze. An $O({n^{ - 1/4}})$ dependence was conjectured by Christensen and Fischer(2022) from numerical evidence. Our proof uses moments involving Catalan and Catalan triangle numbers which appear in a tree resulting from backward induction, and a generalized backward induction principle. It was motivated by an idea of Häggström and Wästlund(2013) to use backward induction of upper and lower Value bounds from a horizon, which they used numerically to settle a few cases. Christensen and Fischer, with much better bounds, settled many more cases. We use Skorohod's embedding to get simple upper and lower bounds from the Brownian analog; our upper bound is the one found by Christensen and Fischer in a different way. We use them first for many more examples, but the new idea is to use them algebraically in the tree, with feedback to get a sharper Value estimate near the border, to settle almost all n.