Overly determined agents prevent consensus in a generalized Deffuant model on Z with dispersed opinions

DOI10.1017/APR.2017.19MaRDI QIDQ5233187zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Timo Hirscher

Publication date 16 September 2019

Published in Advances in Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.03179

zbMATH Keywords

Deffuant modelopinion dynamicsrandom measuretotal variation distance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random measures (60G57) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

Abstract: During the last decades, quite a number of interacting particle systems have been introduced and studied in the border area of mathematics and statistical physics. Some of these can be seen as simplistic models for opinion formation processes in groups of interacting people. In the one introduced by Deffuant et al. agents, that are neighbors on a given network graph, randomly meet in pairs and approach a compromise if their current opinions do not differ by more than a given threshold value $heta$. We consider the two-sidedly infinite path $mathbbZ$ as underlying graph and extend former investigations to a setting in which opinions are given by probability distributions. Similar to what has been shown for finite-dimensional opinions, we observe a dichotomy in the long-term behavior of the model, but only if the initial narrow-mindedness of the agents is restricted.

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