Stable configurations in social networks

DOI10.1088/1361-6544/AAB0B5zbMATH Open1393.37105arXiv1708.07286OpenAlexW3099822159WikidataQ129911820 ScholiaQ129911820MaRDI QIDQ4569231FDOQ4569231

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

Publication date: 28 June 2018

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

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.

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

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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)

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