Hysteresis and disorder-induced order in continuous kinetic-like opinion dynamics in complex networks
Physics and Society
2020-07-21 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Multiagent Systems
Social and Information Networks
Abstract
In this work we tackle a kinetic-like model of opinions dynamics in a networked population endued with a quenched plurality and polarization. Additionally, we consider pairwise interactions that are restrictive, which is modeled with a smooth bounded confidence. Our results show the interesting emergence of nonequilibrium hysteresis and heterogeneity-assisted ordering. Such counterintuitive phenomena are robust to different types of network architectures such as random, small-world and scale-free.
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@article{arxiv.2002.09366,
title = {Hysteresis and disorder-induced order in continuous kinetic-like opinion dynamics in complex networks},
author = {A. L. Oestereich and M. A. Pires and S. M. Duarte Queirós and N. Crokidakis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.09366},
year = {2020}
}
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12 pages, 4 figures, submitted