On the relation between Markov random fields and social networks*

DOI10.1080/0022250X.1980.9989895zbMath0434.92023MaRDI QIDQ3873995

J. Laurie Snell, Ross P. Kindermann

Publication date: 1980

Published in: The Journal of Mathematical Sociology (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

social networks; Gibbs measures; Markov random fields; nearest neighbor potential; voting models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60K35: Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory

60K99: Special processes

94C15: Applications of graph theory to circuits and networks

91D99: Mathematical sociology (including anthropology)

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