Stable configurations in social networks

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/AAB0B5MaRDI QIDQ4569231zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Lee DeVille, Timothy Ferguson, Michael R. Livesay, Jared C. Bronski

Publication date 28 June 2018

Published in Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.07286

zbMATH Keywords

social networkopinion formationbalanced graphcomplex potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of graph theory (05C90) Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30) Information theory (general) (94A15) Dynamical systems in optimization and economics (37N40) Bifurcation theory for ordinary differential equations (34C23) Normal forms for dynamical systems (37G05)

Abstract: We present and analyze a model of opinion formation on an arbitrary network whose dynamics comes from a global energy function. We study the global and local minimizers of this energy, which we call stable opinion configurations, and describe the global minimizers under certain assumptions on the friendship graph. We show a surprising result that the number of stable configurations is not necessarily monotone in the strength of connection in the social network, i.e. the model sometimes supports more stable configurations when the interpersonal connections are made stronger.

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