Fixed points in models of continuous opinion dynamics under bounded confidence

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Authors Jan-Hendrik Lorenz

Publication date 20 March 2008

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.1587

zbMATH Keywords

agent-based modelsdensity-basad modelsdiscrete master equationinteractive Markov chain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in optimization and economics (37N40) Stochastic models in economics (91B70)

Abstract: We present two models of continuous opinion dynamics under bounded confidence which are representable as nonnegative discrete dynamical systems, namely the Hegselmann-Krause model (Hegselmann and Krause, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 5(3), 2002) and the Deffuant-Weisbuch model (Deffuant et al, Advances in Complex Systems, 3, 2000). We fully characterize the set of fixed points for both models. They are identical. Further on, we present reformulations of both models on the more general level of densities of agents in the opinion space as interactive Markov chains. We also characterize the sets of fixed points as identical in both models.

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(6)

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• The role of noise and initial conditions in the asymptotic solution of a bounded confidence, continuous-opinion model
• Pairwise Stochastic Bounded Confidence Opinion Dynamics: Heavy Tails and Stability
• On \(S^1\) as an alternative continuous opinion space in a three-party regime
• Continuous model of opinion dynamics with convictions
• Multidimensional Friedkin-Johnsen model with increasing stubbornness in social networks

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