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Limiting behavior of a kindness model

Probability 2024-02-06 v1

Abstract

This paper is concerned with a stochastic model for the spread of kindness across a social network. Individuals are located on the vertices of a general finite connected graph, and are characterized by their kindness belief. Each individual, say xx, interacts with each of its neighbors, say yy, at rate one. The interactions can be kind or unkind, with kind interactions being more likely when the kindness belief of the sender xx is high. In addition, kind interactions increase the kindness belief of the recipient yy, whereas unkind interactions decrease its kindness belief. The system also depends on two parameters modeling the impact of kind and unkind interactions, respectively. We prove that, when kind interactions have a larger impact than unkind interactions, the system converges to the purely kind configuration with probability tending to one exponentially fast in the large population limit.

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@article{arxiv.2402.02579,
  title  = {Limiting behavior of a kindness model},
  author = {Nicolas Lanchier and Max Mercer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.02579},
  year   = {2024}
}

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6 pages

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