On the emergence of an ``intention field for socially cohesive agents

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2014/03/P03010zbMATH Open1456.91091arXiv1311.0810MaRDI QIDQ3301896FDOQ3301896

Authors: Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Pablo Jensen, Christian Borghesi 

Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We argue that when a social convergence mechanism exists and is strong enough, one should expect the emergence of a well defined "field", i.e. a slowly evolving, local quantity around which individual attributes fluctuate in a finite range. This condensation phenomenon is well illustrated by the Deffuant-Weisbuch opinion model for which we provide a natural extension to allow for spatial heterogeneities. We show analytically and numerically that the resulting dynamics of the emergent field is a noisy diffusion equation that has a slow dynamics. This random diffusion equation reproduces the long-ranged, logarithmic decrease of the correlation of spatial voting patterns empirically found in [1, 2]. Interestingly enough, we find that when the social cohesion mechanism becomes too weak, cultural cohesion breaks down completely, in the sense that the distribution of intentions/opinions becomes infinitely broad. No emerging field exists in this case. All these analytical findings are confirmed by numerical simulations of an agent-based model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0810

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30)

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