partial mean field opinion model

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MaRDI QIDQ6675326 FDOQ6675326

opinion model considering many individuals and few traditional media and social media influencers

Description

For situations with many individuals but few influencers and media, one can derive the mean-field limit by a partial differential equation (PDE) that describes the opinion dynamics of individuals in the limit of infinitely many individuals but is usually already a good approximation to the dynamics for finitely many individuals. Since here the number of influencers and media is still small and finite, their dynamics are still best described by SDEs but now coupled to PDEs for the evolution of the opinion distributions of individuals.

List of contained entities

attraction force at opinion formulation	$ℱ(x,y_m,z_l,\rho )=a\frac{\underset{D}{\int }\rho (x^{\prime },t)\phi (\Vert x^{\prime }-x\Vert )(x^{\prime }-x)d{x}^{\prime }}{\underset{D}{\int }\rho (x^{\prime },t)\phi (\Vert x^{\prime }-x\Vert )d{x}^{\prime }}+b(y_m(t)-x)+c(z_l(t)-x)$
	$ℱ$ represents attraction force at opinion
	$\varphi$ represents pair function
	$\rho$ represents overall distribution of individuals
	$a$ represents parameter to scale attractive force from other individuals
	$b$ represents parameter to scale attractive force from media
	$c$ represents parameter to scale attractive force from influencers
	$x$ represents opinion
average opinion of followers of infuencers in the partial mean field model formulation	${\hat{x}}_l(t)=\frac{\sum _{m=1}^M\underset{D}{\int }x{\rho }_{m,l}(x,t)dx}{\sum _{m=1}^M{n}_{m,l}(t)}$
	${\hat{x}}_l(t)$ represents average opinion of followers of influencers in the partial mean field model
	${\rho }_{m,l}$ represents limiting distribution of individuals
	$n_{m,l}$ represents medium influencer fraction limit
	$t$ represents time
	$x$ represents opinion
average opinion of followers of media in the partial mean field model formulation	${\tilde{x}}_m(t)=\frac{\sum _{l=1}^L\underset{D}{\int }x{\rho }_{m,l}(x,t)dx}{\sum _{l=1}^L{n}_{m,l}(t)}$
	${\rho }_{m,l}$ represents limiting distribution of individuals
	${\tilde{x}}_m(t)$ represents average opinion of followers of media in the partial mean field model
	$n_{m,l}$ represents medium influencer fraction limit
	$t$ represents time
	$x$ represents opinion
change in opinions of influencers in the partial mean field model	$\gamma d{z}_l(t)=({\hat{x}}_l(t)-z_l(t))dt+\hat{\sigma }d{\hat{W}}_l(t)$
	$\gamma$ represents inertia parameter for opinion changes of influencers
	${\hat{W}}_l$ represents Wiener process
	$\hat{\sigma }$ represents noise strength
	${\hat{x}}_l$ represents average opinion of followers of influencers in the partial mean field model
	$t$ represents time
	$z_l$ represents opinion
change in opinions of media in the partial mean field model	$\Gamma d{y}_m(t)=({\tilde{x}}_m(t)-y_m(t))dt+\tilde{\sigma }d{\tilde{W}}_m(t)$
	$\Gamma$ represents inertia parameter for opinion changes of media
	${\tilde{W}}_m$ represents Wiener process
	$\tilde{\sigma }$ represents noise strength
	${\tilde{x}}_m$ represents average opinion of followers of media in the partial mean field model
	$t$ represents time
	$y_m$ represents opinion
empirical distribution of individuals formulation	${\rho }_{m,l}^{(N)}(x,t)=\frac{1}{N}\sum _{\begin{array}{c}i:B_{im}=1\\ C_{il}(t)=1\end{array}}\delta (x-x_i(t))$
	$B_{i}m$ represents medium follower matrix
	$C_{i}m$ represents influencer individual matrix
	$N$ represents total number of individuals
	$\delta$ represents Dirac delta distribution
	${\rho }_{m,l}^{(N)}$ represents empirical distribution of individuals
	$t$ represents time
	$x$ represents opinion
	$x_i$ represents opinion
limiting distribution of individuals formulation	$\begin{array}{ccc}{\partial }_t{\rho }_{m,l}(x,t)& =& \frac{1}{2}{\sigma }^2\Delta {\rho }_{m,l}(x,t)-\mathrm{\nabla }\cdot ({\rho }_{m,l}(x,t)ℱ(x,y_m,z_l,\rho ))\\ & +& \sum _{l^{\prime }\ne l}(-{\Lambda }_m^{\to l^{\prime }}(x,t){\rho }_{m,l}(x,t)+{\Lambda }_m^{\to l}(x,t){\rho }_{m,l^{\prime }}(x,t))\end{array}$
	${\Lambda }_m^{\to l}$ represents rate of switching influencers
	$ℱ$ represents attraction force at opinion
	${\partial }_t{\rho }_{m,l}(x,t)$ represents limiting distribution of individuals
	$\sigma$ represents noise strength
	$t$ represents time
	$x$ represents opinion
	$y_m$ represents opinion
	$z_l$ represents opinion
overall distribution of individuals formulation	$\rho ={\Sigma }_{m,l}{\rho }_{m,l}$
	$\rho$ represents overall distribution of individuals
	$rh{o}_{m,l}$ represents limiting distribution of individuals

Described at:

Modelling opinion dynamics under the impact of influencer and media strategies

(documentation)

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