Consensus and ordering in language dynamics

DOI10.1140/EPJB/E2009-00284-2MaRDI QIDQ977778zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors X. Castelló, Andrea Baronchelli, Vittorio Loreto

Publication date 23 June 2010

Published in The European Physical Journal B. Condensed Matter and Complex Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.3844, https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/2648/1/Consensus%20and%20ordering%20in%20language%20dynamics.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

dynamics of social systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30) Dynamical systems in optimization and economics (37N40) Applications of statistical and quantum mechanics to economics (econophysics) (91B80)

Abstract: We consider two social consensus models, the AB-model and the Naming Game restricted to two conventions, which describe a population of interacting agents that can be in either of two equivalent states (A or B) or in a third mixed (AB) state. Proposed in the context of language competition and emergence, the AB state was associated with bilingualism and synonymy respectively. We show that the two models are equivalent in the mean field approximation, though the differences at the microscopic level have non-trivial consequences. To point them out, we investigate an extension of these dynamics in which confidence/trust is considered, focusing on the case of an underlying fully connected graph, and we show that the consensus-polarization phase transition taking place in the Naming Game is not observed in the AB model. We then consider the interface motion in regular lattices. Qualitatively, both models show the same behavior: a diffusive interface motion in a one-dimensional lattice, and a curvature driven dynamics with diffusing stripe-like metastable states in a two-dimensional one. However, in comparison to the Naming Game, the AB-model dynamics is shown to slow down the diffusion of such configurations.

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