On the role of volatility in the evolution of social networks

DOI10.1140/EPJB/E2008-00365-8MaRDI QIDQ977903zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. De Martino, Matteo Marsili

Publication date 23 June 2010

Published in The European Physical Journal B. Condensed Matter and Complex Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.0348

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistical and quantum mechanics to economics (econophysics) (91B80) Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30)

Abstract: We study how the volatility, node- or link-based, affects the evolution of social networks in simple models. The model describes the competition between order -- promoted by the efforts of agents to coordinate -- and disorder induced by volatility in the underlying social network. We find that when volatility affects mostly the decay of links, the model exhibit a sharp transition between an ordered phase with a dense network and a disordered phase with a sparse network. When volatility is mostly node-based, instead, only the symmetric (disordered) phase exists These two regimes are separated by a second order phase transition of unusual type, characterized by an order parameter critical exponent $$. We argue that node volatility has the same effect in a broader class of models, and provide numerical evidence in this direction.

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