Social climbing and Amoroso distribution

DOI10.1142/S0218202520500426zbMATH Open1451.35222arXiv2006.02942OpenAlexW3092470961MaRDI QIDQ3386872FDOQ3386872

Authors: Giacomo Dimarco, G. Toscani 

Publication date: 7 January 2021

Published in: M\(^3\)AS. Mathematical Models \& Methods in Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a class of one-dimensional linear kinetic equations of Boltzmann and Fokker--Planck type, describing the dynamics of individuals of a multi-agent society questing for high status in the social hierarchy. At the Boltzmann level, the microscopic variation of the status of agents around a universal desired target, is built up introducing as main criterion for the change of status a suitable value function in the spirit of the prospect theory of Kahneman and Twersky. In the asymptotics of grazing interactions, the solution density of the Boltzmann type kinetic equation is shown to converge towards the solution of a Fokker--Planck type equation with variable coefficients of diffusion and drift, characterized by the mathematical properties of the value function. The steady states of the statistical distribution of the social status predicted by the Fokker--Planck equations belong to the class of Amoroso distributions with Pareto tails, which correspond to the emergence of a emph{social elite}. The details of the microscopic kinetic interaction allow to clarify the meaning of the various parameters characterizing the resulting equilibrium. Numerical results then show that the steady state of the underlying kinetic equation is close to Amoroso distribution even in an intermediate regime in which interactions are not grazing.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.02942

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zbMATH Keywords

Fokker-Planck equationskinetic modelsgeneralized gamma distributionlog-normal distributionAmoroso distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Models of societies, social and urban evolution (91D10) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Fokker-Planck equations (35Q84) Continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B21)

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