Boltzmann-like and Boltzmann-Fokker-Planck equations as a foundation of behavioral models

DOI10.1016/0378-4371(93)90034-2zbMath0804.92030arXivcond-mat/9805384MaRDI QIDQ1330377

Dirk Helbing

Publication date: 19 January 1995

Published in: Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9805384

zbMATH Keywords

competition; social norms; cooperation; logistic equation; gravity model; Boltzmann-like equations; public opinion; Kramers-Moyal expansion; avoidance processes; Boltzmann- Fokker-Planck equations; game dynamical equations; imitative processes; social fields; social forces; social pair interactions; spatial exchange processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

82C40: Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics

91D25: Spatial models in sociology

82D99: Applications of statistical mechanics to specific types of physical systems

91D99: Mathematical sociology (including anthropology)

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