A thermodynamic counterpart of the Axelrod model of social influence: the one-dimensional case

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSA.2013.08.033zbMATH Open1402.91623arXiv1208.4381OpenAlexW2016214547WikidataQ62388349 ScholiaQ62388349MaRDI QIDQ1673369FDOQ1673369

Authors: Peng Zhang 

Publication date: 11 September 2018

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

Abstract: We propose a thermodynamic version of the Axelrod model of social influence. In one-dimensional (1D) lattices, the thermodynamic model becomes a coupled Potts model with a bonding interaction that increases with the site matching traits. We analytically calculate thermodynamic and critical properties for a 1D system and show that an order-disorder phase transition only occurs at T = 0 independent of the number of cultural traits q and features F. The 1D thermodynamic Axelrod model belongs to the same universality class of the Ising and Potts models, notwithstanding the increase of the internal dimension of the local degree of freedom and the state-dependent bonding interaction. We suggest a unifying proposal to compare exponents across different discrete 1D models. The comparison with our Hamiltonian description reveals that in the thermodynamic limit the original out-of-equilibrium 1D Axelrod model with noise behaves like an ordinary thermodynamic 1D interacting particle system.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.4381

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zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionsAxelrod modelsociophysicsthermodynamic models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30) Applications of statistical and quantum mechanics to economics (econophysics) (91B80) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

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