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Erd\"os-R\'enyi phase transition in the Axelrod model on complete graphs

Physics and Society 2020-06-24 v3

Abstract

The Axelrod model has been widely studied since its proposal for social influence and cultural dissemination. In particular, the community of statistical physics focused on the presence of a phase transition as a function of its two main parameters, FF and QQ. In this work, we show that the Axelrod model undergoes a second order phase transition in the limit of FF \rightarrow \infty on a complete graph. This transition is equivalent to the Erd\"os-R\'enyi phase transition in random networks when it is described in terms of the probability of interaction at the initial state, which depends on a scaling relation between FF and QQ. We also found that this probability plays a key role in sparse topologies by collapsing the transition curves for different values of the parameter FF.

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@article{arxiv.1912.09420,
  title  = {Erd\"os-R\'enyi phase transition in the Axelrod model on complete graphs},
  author = {Sebastián Pinto and Pablo Balenzuela},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.09420},
  year   = {2020}
}