An analytical formulation for multidimensional continuous opinion models

DOI10.1016/J.CHAOS.2021.111368MaRDI QIDQ2169675zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lucía Pedraza, Juan P. Pinasco, Nicolas Saintier, Pablo Balenzuela

Publication date 29 August 2022

Published in Chaos, Solitons and Fractals (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14477

zbMATH Keywords

analytical formulationmultidimensional opinion spaceopinion formation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30)

Abstract: Usually, opinion formation models assume that individuals have an opinion about a given topic which can change due to interactions with others. However, individuals can have different opinions in different topics and therefore n-dimensional models are best suited to deal with these cases. While there have been many efforts to develop analytical models for one dimensional opinion models, less attention has been paid to multidimensional ones. In this work, we develop an analytical approach for multidimensional models of continuous opinions where dimensions can be correlated or uncorrelated. We show that for any generic reciprocal interactions between agents, the mean value of initial opinion distribution is conserved. Moreover, for positive social influence interaction mechanisms, the variance of opinion distributions decreases with time and the system converges to a delta distributed function. In particular, we calculate the convergence time when agents get closer in a discrete quantity after interacting, showing a clear difference between correlated and uncorrelated cases.

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