On periodical behaviour in societies with symmetric influences (Q2266658)

We propose a simple model of society with a symmetric function \(w(u,v)\) measuring the influence of the opinion of member \(v\) on that of member \(u\). The opinions are chosen from a finite set. At each step everyone accepts the majority opinion (with respect to \(w\)) of the other members. The behaviour of such a society is clearly periodic after some initial time. We prove that the length of the period is either one or two.