Coexistence of opposite opinions in a network with communities

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2007/08/P08026MaRDI QIDQ5239397zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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)

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

zbMATH Keywords

critical phenomena of socio-economic systemsnetworksrandom graphssocio-economic networks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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