Consensus and disagreement: the role of quantized behaviors in opinion dynamics

DOI10.1137/16M1083402zbMATH Open1386.34087arXiv1607.01482OpenAlexW2964054734WikidataQ130117534 ScholiaQ130117534MaRDI QIDQ4609448FDOQ4609448

Authors: Paolo Frasca, Francesca Ceragioli 

Publication date: 3 April 2018

Published in: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper deals with continuous-time opinion dynamics that feature the interplay of continuous opinions and discrete behaviours. In our model, the opinion of one individual is only influenced by the behaviours of fellow individuals. The key technical difficulty in the study of these dynamics is that the right-hand sides of the equations are discontinuous and thus their solutions must be intended in some generalized sense: in our analysis, we consider both Carath'eodory and Krasowskii solutions. We first prove existence and completeness of Carath'eodory solutions from every initial condition and we highlight a pathological behaviour of Carath'eodory solutions, which can converge to points that are not (Carath'eodory) equilibria. Notably, such points can be arbitrarily far from consensus and indeed simulations show that convergence to non-consensus configurations is very common. In order to cope with these pathological attractors, we then study Krasowskii solutions. We give an estimate of the asymptotic distance of all Krasowskii solutions from consensus and we prove its tightness via an example: this estimate is quadratic in the number of agents, implying that quantization can drastically destroy consensus. However, we are able to prove convergence to consensus in some special cases, namely when the communication among the individuals is described by either a complete or a complete bipartite graph.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01482

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zbMATH Keywords

opinion dynamicsdiscontinuous differential equationsdisagreementquantized consensus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Models of societies, social and urban evolution (91D10) Qualitative investigation and simulation of ordinary differential equation models (34C60) Discontinuous ordinary differential equations (34A36) Topological structure of integral curves, singular points, limit cycles of ordinary differential equations (34C05) Asymptotic properties of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34D05) Stability of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34D20)

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