Collective dynamics of opposing groups with stochastic communication (Q2046188)

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.