A Boltzmann-like equation for choice formation

DOI10.3934/krm.2009.2.135zbMath1180.35402MaRDI QIDQ1042714

Giuseppe Toscani, Lucia Della Croce, Valeriano Comincioli

Publication date: 7 December 2009

Published in: Kinetic and Related Models (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3934/krm.2009.2.135

zbMATH Keywords

Fokker-Planck equation; opinion formation; linear Boltzmann equation; sociodynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

91C20: Clustering in the social and behavioral sciences

60K35: Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory

82B21: Continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics

35Q91: PDEs in connection with game theory, economics, social and behavioral sciences

35Q20: Boltzmann equations

35Q84: Fokker-Planck equations

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