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We study the scaling limit of a large class of voter model perturbations in one dimension, including stochastic Potts models, to a universal limiting object, the continuum voter model perturbation. The perturbations can be described in…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-21 C. M. Newman , K. Ravishankar , E. Schertzer

In recent years, the study of various models and questions related to Liquid Democracy has been of growing interest among the community of Computational Social Choice. A concern that has been raised, is that current academic literature…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Evangelos Markakis , Georgios Papasotiropoulos

We generalize a binary majority-vote model on adaptive networks to its plurality-vote counterpart and analyze the time scale to consensus when voters are given more than two options. When opinions are uniformly distributed in the population…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-05-01 Degang Wu , K. Y. Szeto

We consider a modification of the adaptive contact process which, interpreted in the context of opinion dynamics, breaks the symmetry of the coevolutionary voter model by assigning to each node type a different strategy to promote…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2013-12-30 Stefan Wieland , Ana Nunes

We generalize a binary majority-vote model on adaptive networks to a plurality-vote counterpart. When opinions are uniformly distributed in the population of voters in the initial state, it is found that having more available opinions in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-06-24 Degang Wu , Kwok Yip Szeto

We study noise sensitivity of the consensus opinion of the voter model on finite graphs, with respect to noise affecting the initial opinions and noise affecting the dynamics. We prove that the final opinion is stable with respect to small…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Gideon Amir , Omer Angel , Rangel Baldasso , Ron Peretz

We study opinion dynamics in a population of interacting adaptive agents voting on a set of complex multidimensional issues. We consider agents which can classify issues into for or against. The agents arrive at the opinions about each…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-03-11 Renato Vicente , Andre C. R. Martins , Nestor Caticha

We investigate a nonlinear version of coevolving voter models, in which node states and network structure update as a coupled stochastic dynamical process. Most prior work on coevolving voter models has focused on linear update rules with…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-01 Yacoub H. Kureh , Mason A. Porter

We study how zealotry and nonlinear social impact affect consensus formation in the nonlinear voter model, evolutionary games, and the partisan voter model. In all three models, consensus is an absorbing state in finite populations, while…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-28 Christopher R. Kitching , Lucía S. Ramirez , Maxi San Miguel , Tobias Galla

We investigate the ordering dynamics of the voter model with time-delayed interactions. The dynamical process in the $d$-dimensional lattice is shown to be equivalent to the first passage problem of a random walker in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-19 Mina Kim , Jae Dong Noh

We introduce time variation in the flip-rates of the Voter Model. This type of generalisation is relevant to models of ageing in language change, allowing the representation of changes in speakers' learning rates over their lifetime and may…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 G. J. Baxter

We study an adaptive network model driven by a nonlinear voter dynamics. Each node in the network represents a voter and can be in one of two states that correspond to different opinions shared by the voters. A voter disagreeing with its…

For the voter model, we study the effect of a memory-dependent transition rate. We assume that the transition of a spin into the opposite state decreases with the time it has been in its current state. Counter-intuitively, we find that the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Hans-Ulrich Stark , Claudio J. Tessone , Frank Schweitzer

A recent line of work studies models of opinion exchange where agent opinions about $d$ topics are tracked simultaneously. The opinions are represented as vectors on the unit $(d-1)$-sphere, and the update rule is based on the overall…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Abdou Majeed Alidou , Júlia Baligács , Jan Hązła

We define a stochastic reaction-diffusion process that describes a consensus formation in a non-sedentary population. The process is a diffusive version of the Majority Vote model, where the state update follows two stages: in the first…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-14 J. R. S. Lima , F. W. S. Lima , T. F. A. Alves , G. A. Alves , A. Macedo-Filho

In the evolving voter model, when an individual interacts with a neighbor having an opinion different from theirs, they will with probability $1-\alpha$ imitate the neighbor but with probability $ \alpha$ will sever the connection and…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Anirban Basak , Rick Durrett , Yuan Zhang

Coupling dynamics of the states of the nodes of a network to the dynamics of the network topology leads to generic absorbing and fragmentation transitions. The coevolving voter model is a typical system that exhibits such transitions at…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-14 Marina Diakonova , Victor M. Eguiluz , Maxi San Miguel

We study a model of a population making a binary decision based on information spreading within the population, which is fully connected or covering a square grid. We assume that a fraction of the population wants to make the choice of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-05-24 Petter Holme , Hang-Hyun Jo

In linear models of consensus dynamics, the state of the various agents converges to a value which is a convex combination of the agents' initial states. We call it democratic if in the large scale limit (number of agents going to infinity)…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Fabio Fagnani , Jean-Charles Delvenne

We generalize the original majority-vote model by incorporating an inertia into the microscopic dynamics of the spin flipping, where the spin-flip probability of any individual depends not only on the states of its neighbors, but also on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-13 Hanshuang Chen , Chuansheng Shen , Haifeng Zhang , Guofeng Li , Zhonghuai Hou , Jürgen Kurths