Further results on consensus formation in the Deffuant model (Q2637763)

This paper studies the Deffuant model in which two neighboring individuals randomly meet and share their opinions if their discrepancy is less than a given threshold \(\theta\). When the underlying network is a line \(\mathbb{Z}\), the authors show the critical threshold \(\theta_c\) for initial opinions that not necessarily distributed uniformly on \([0,1]\) (but still i.i.d.). Moreover, the results are extended to the higher-dimensional lattices \(\mathbb{Z}^d\) for \(d\geq2\) and the infinite cluster of supercritical bond percolation on them.