BETTER BEING THIRD THAN SECOND IN A SEARCH FOR A MAJORITY OPINION

DOI10.1142/S0219525902000511MaRDI QIDQ4425280zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Dietrich Stauffer

Publication date 2002

Published in Advances in Complex Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0202357

zbMATH Keywords

diffusionMonte Carlo simulationopinion dynamicssociophysicsSznajd model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B99) Mathematical sociology (including anthropology) (91D99)

Abstract: Monte Carlo simulations of a Sznajd model show that if a near-consensus is formed out of four initially equally widespread opinions, the one which at intermediate times is second in the number of adherents usually loses out against the third-placed opinion.

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