Collective dynamics of opposing groups with stochastic communication

DOI10.1007/S10013-020-00430-2MaRDI QIDQ2046188zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ruiwen Shu, Shi Jin

Publication date 17 August 2021

Published in Vietnam Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05566

zbMATH Keywords

collective behaviorconsensusopinion dynamicsstochastic communication

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30)

Abstract: We propose models describing the collective dynamics of two opposing groups of individuals with stochastic communication. Individuals from the same group are assumed to align in a stochastic manner, while individuals from different groups are assumed to anti-align. Under reasonable assumptions, we prove the large time behavior of separation, in the sense that the variation inside a group is much less than the distance between the two groups. The separation phenomena are verified by numerical simulations.

Review text

This paper studies collective dynamics of opposing groups with stochastic communication over a complete graph. The model is characterized by a first-order continuous-time dynamics with linear averaging components separating two different groups. Each group has its own coefficient function describing alignment of opinions between people in the same group and in different groups. Two scenarios are discussed for the stochasticity of interaction. The first scenario assumes random communication between a pair of persons and the coefficients are independent Binomial variables which are time-invariant. The second scenario assumes random communication that changes at a time step of \(k\tau\) for each positive integer \(k\) and \(\tau>0\). For both cases, it is shown that with high probability, the two groups' opinions will be separated in the sense of \(L^2\) and \(L^{\infty}\) distance under some conditions imposed on separation indices.

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