Coexistence of opposite opinions in a network with communities

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2007/08/P08026zbMATH Open1456.91098arXivphysics/0703266OpenAlexW3098397870WikidataQ57225192 ScholiaQ57225192MaRDI QIDQ5239397FDOQ5239397

Authors: Renaud Lambiotte, Marcel R. Ausloos 

Publication date: 22 October 2019

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Majority Rule is applied to a topology that consists of two coupled random networks, thereby mimicking the modular structure observed in social networks. We calculate analytically the asymptotic behaviour of the model and derive a phase diagram that depends on the frequency of random opinion flips and on the inter-connectivity between the two communities. It is shown that three regimes may take place: a disordered regime, where no collective phenomena takes place; a symmetric regime, where the nodes in both communities reach the same average opinion; an asymmetric regime, where the nodes in each community reach an opposite average opinion. The transition from the asymmetric regime to the symmetric regime is shown to be discontinuous.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0703266

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zbMATH Keywords

networksrandom graphssocio-economic networkscritical phenomena of socio-economic systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deterministic network models in operations research (90B10) Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30) Small world graphs, complex networks (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C82)

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