Scaling limits for continuous opinion dynamics systems

DOI10.1214/10-AAP739zbMATH Open1235.60136arXiv1003.3384MaRDI QIDQ640065FDOQ640065

Authors: Giacomo Como, Fabio Fagnani 

Publication date: 12 October 2011

Published in: The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Scaling limits are analyzed for stochastic continuous opinion dynamics systems, also known as gossip models. In such models, agents update their vector-valued opinion to a convex combination (possibly agent- and opinion-dependent) of their current value and that of another observed agent. It is shown that, in the limit of large agent population size, the empirical opinion density concentrates, at an exponential probability rate, around the solution of a probability-measure-valued ordinary differential equation describing the system's mean-field dynamics. Properties of the associated initial value problem are studied. The asymptotic behavior of the solution is analyzed for bounded-confidence opinion dynamics, and in the presence of an heterogeneous influential environment.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.3384

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zbMATH Keywords

social networksmulti-agent systemsbounded confidenceopinion dynamicsscaling limitsprobability-measurement-valued ODEs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30) Functional limit theorems; invariance principles (60F17) Large-scale systems (93A15)

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