On the rise and fall of networked societies
Physics and Society
2009-11-11 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We review recent results on the dynamics of social networks which suggest that the interplay between the network formation process and volatility may lead to the occurrence of discontinuous phase transitions and phase coexistence in a large class of models. We then investigate the effects of negative links -- links inhibiting local growth of the network -- and of a geographical distribution of the agents in such models. We show, by extensive numerical simulations, that both effects enhance this phenomenology, i.e. it increases the size of the coexistence region.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0505019,
title = {On the rise and fall of networked societies},
author = {George C. M. A. Ehrhardt and Matteo Marsili and Fernando Vega-Redondo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0505019},
year = {2009}
}
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6 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of Granada Workshop 2005