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Schelling's segregation model is a landmark model in sociology. It shows the counter-intuitive phenomenon that residential segregation between individuals of different groups can emerge even when all involved individuals are tolerant.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Ankit Chauhan , Pascal Lenzner , Louise Molitor

The Schelling model of segregation between two groups of residential agents (Schelling 1971; Schelling 1978) reflects the most abstract view of the non-economic forces of residential migrations: be close to people of 'your own'. The model…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-10-14 Itzhak Benenson , Erez Hatna

Urban morphology has presented significant intellectual challenges to mathematicians and physicists ever since the eighteenth century, when Euler first explored the famous Konigsberg bridges problem. Many important regularities and scaling…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-10-28 A. Paolo Masucci , Elsa Arcaute , Erez Hatna , Kiril Stanilov , Michael Batty

This paper generalizes the original Schelling (1969, 1971a,b, 2006) model of racial and residential segregation to a context of variable externalities due to social linkages. In a setting in which individuals' utility function is a convex…

General Economics · Economics 2023-01-24 Roy Cerqueti , Luca De Benedictis , Valerio Leone Sciabolazza

Schelling's model of segregation demonstrates that even in the absence of social or governmental interventions, individuals with mild in-group preferences can self-organize into strongly segregated neighborhoods. Many variants of this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-11 Fabio van Dissel , Tuan Minh Pham , Wout Merbis

The phenomenon of residential segregation was captured by Schelling's famous segregation model where two types of agents are placed on a grid and an agent is content with her location if the fraction of her neighbors which have the same…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Hagen Echzell , Tobias Friedrich , Pascal Lenzner , Louise Molitor , Marcus Pappik , Friedrich Schöne , Fabian Sommer , David Stangl

We study the behaviour of a Schelling-class system in which a fraction $f$ of spatially-fixed switching agents is introduced. This new model allows for multiple interpretations, including: (i) random, non-preferential allocation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-02 Aurélien Hazan , Julien Randon-Furling

We present a complete analysis of the Schelling dynamical system [Haw2018] of two connected neighbourhoods, with or without population reservoirs, for different types of linear and nonlinear tolerance schedules. We show that stable…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-07-04 D. J. Haw , S. J. Hogan

The first chapter concerns monotype population models. We first study general birth and death processes and we give non-explosion and extinction criteria, moment computations and a pathwise representation. We then show how different scales…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-06 Vincent Bansaye , Sylvie Méléard

Urban segregation of different communities, like blacks and whites in the USA, has been simulated by Ising-like models since Schelling 1971. This research was accompanied by a scientific segregation, with sociologists and physicists…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-10-30 Dietrich Stauffer , Christian Schulze

Scaling has been proposed as a powerful tool to analyze the properties of complex systems, and in particular for cities where it describes how various properties change with population. The empirical study of scaling on a wide range of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-18 Jules Depersin , Marc Barthelemy

The usual thermodynamic limit for systems of classical self-gravitating point particles becomes well defined, as a {\it dynamical} problem, using a simple physical prescription for the calculation of the force, equivalent to the so-called…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-05-12 Michael Joyce

We consider the stochastic evolution of a 1+1-dimensional interface (or polymer) in presence of a substrate. This stochastic process is a dynamical version of the homogeneous pinning model. We start from a configuration far from…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-04-29 Hubert Lacoin

We show that spatial extensions of many-species population dynamics models, such as the Lotka-Volterra model with random interactions we focus on in this work, generically exhibit scale-free correlation functions of population sizes in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-09 Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey

We model the dynamics of the Schelling model for agents described simply by a continuously distributed variable - wealth. Agents move to neighborhoods where their wealth is not lesser than that of some proportion of their neighbors, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-05-23 Anand Sahasranaman , Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

We study, using numerical simulations, the dynamical evolution of self-gravitating point particles in static euclidean space, starting from a simple class of infinite ``shuffled lattice'' initial conditions. These are obtained by applying…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Thierry Baertschiger , Michael Joyce , Andrea Gabrielli , Francesco Sylos Labini

We consider the constrained Schelling model of social segregation in which the utility factor of agents strictly increases and non-local jumps of the agents are allowed. In the present study, the utility factor u is defined in a way such…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-09 Parna Roy , Parongama Sen

The continuous-space symbiotic branching model describes the evolution of two interacting populations that can reproduce locally only in the simultaneous presence of each other. If started with complementary Heaviside initial conditions,…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-03-16 Jochen Blath , Matthias Hammer , Marcel Ortgiese

We consider an infinite spatial inhomogeneous random graph model with an integrable connection kernel that interpolates nicely between existing spatial random graph models. Key examples are versions of the weight-dependent random connection…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Remco van der Hofstad , Pim van der Hoorn , Neeladri Maitra

The dynamics of a population undergoing selection is a central topic in evolutionary biology. This question is particularly intriguing in the case where selective forces act in opposing directions at two population scales. For example, a…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-03 Shishi Luo , Jonathan C. Mattingly