Simulation of Galam's contrarian opinions
Statistical Mechanics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Galam's model of people voting always against the majority is shown to give for the quenched case different results than the original annealed model. For people diffusing on a lattice, Galam's phase transitions happen only at higher concentrations of people.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0308381,
title = {Simulation of Galam's contrarian opinions},
author = {D. Stauffer and J. S. Sa Martins},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0308381},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages sociophysics, including figures