Opinion dynamics with Lotka-Volterra type interactions

DOI10.1214/19-EJP373MaRDI QIDQ2279317zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michele Aleandri, Ida Germana Minelli

Publication date 12 December 2019

Published in Electronic Journal of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05937, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1573030843

zbMATH Keywords

averaging principlechaos propagationinteracting particle systemsopinion dynamicsscaling limitsstochastic dynamics with quenched disorder

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Processes in random environments (60K37) Applications of statistics to social sciences (62P25)

Abstract: We investigate a class of models for opinion dynamics in a population with two interacting families of individuals. Each family has an intrinsic mean field "Voter-like" dynamics which is influenced by interaction with the other family. The interaction terms describe a cooperative/conformist or competitive/nonconformist attitude of one family with respect to the other. We prove chaos propagation, i.e., we show that on any time interval [0,T], as the size of the system goes to infinity, each individual behaves independently of the others with transition rates driven by a macroscopic equation. We focus in particular on models with Lotka-Volterra type interactions, i.e., models with cooperative vs. competitive families. For these models, although the microscopic system is driven a.s. to consensus within each family, a periodic behaviour arises in the macroscopic scale. In order to describe fluctuations between the limiting periodic orbits, we identify a slow variable in the microscopic system and, through an averaging principle, we find a diffusion which describes the macroscopic dynamics of such variable on a larger time scale.

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