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The dynamics of social relations and the possibility of reaching the state of structural balance (Heider balance) are discussed for various networks of interacting actors under the influence of the temperature modeling the social noise…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-02-02 Maciej Wołoszyn , Krzysztof Malarz

The lack of signed random networks in standard balance studies has prompted us to extend the Hamiltonian of the standard balance model. Random networks with tunable parameters are suitable for better understanding the behavior of standard…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-21 R. Masoumi , F. Oloomi , S. Sajjadi , A. H. Shirazi , G. R. Jafari

Structural balance has been posited as one of the factors influencing how friendly and hostile relations of social actors evolve over time. This study investigates the behavior of the Heider balance model in Erd\"os-R\'enyi random graphs in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-07-10 Krishnadas Mohandas , Krzysztof Suchecki , Janusz A. Holyst

The Heider balance is investigated in a chain of actors, with periodic boundary conditions and the neighborhood of range $r$, with $r$ as a parameter. Two model dynamics are applied: a deterministic cellular automaton (Malarz et al, Physica…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-12-25 Krzysztof Malarz , Krzysztof Kułakowski

In a recent work [R. Shojaei et al, Physical Review E 100, 022303 (2019)] the Authors calculate numerically the critical temperature $T_c$ of the balanced-imbalanced phase transition in a fully connected graph. According to their findings,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-06-16 Krzysztof Malarz , Krzysztof Kułakowski

In signed networks with simultaneous friendly and hostile interactions, there is a general tendency to a global structural balance, based on the dynamical model of links status. Although the structural balance represents a state of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-07-24 F. Rabbani , Amir H. Shirazi , G. R. Jafari

Structural balance in social complex networks has been modeled with two types of triplet interactions. First, the interaction that only considers dynamic role for links or relationships (Heider balance), and second, the interaction that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-12 A. Kargaran , G. R. Jafari

In this paper, we study the phase transition behavior emerging from the interactions among multiple agents in the presence of noise. We propose a simple discrete-time model in which a group of non-mobile agents form either a fixed connected…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-10-21 Jialing Liu , Vikas Yadav , Hullas Sehgal , Joshua M. Olson , Haifeng Liu , Nicola Elia

Structural balance is a classic property of signed graphs satisfying Heider's seminal axioms. Mathematical sociologists have studied balance theory since its inception in the 1040s. Recent research has focused on the development of dynamic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-26 Pedro Cisneros-Velarde , Noah E. Friedkin , Anton V. Proskurnikov , Francesco Bullo

Heider balance theory provides a fundamental framework for understanding the formation of friendly and hostile relations in social networks. Existing stochastic formulations typically assume a uniform social temperature, implying that all…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-19 Zhen Li , Yuki Izumida

In social networks, the balance theory has been studied by considering either the triple interactions between the links (structural balance) or the triple interaction of nodes and links (coevolutionary balance). In the structural balance…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-31 M. Ghanbarzadeh Noudehi , A. Kargaran , N. Azimi-Tafreshi , G. R. Jafari

Hierarchy significantly shapes interactions in social structures by organizing individuals or groups based on status, power, or privilege. This study investigates how hierarchy affects structural balance as temperature variations, which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-25 Amir Kargaran , Houman Jafari , G. Reza Jafari

The Heider balance addresses three-body interactions with the assumption that triads are equally important in the dynamics of the network. In many networks, the relations do not have the same strength so, triads are differently weighted.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-19 M. Bagherikalhor , A. Kargaran , A. H. Shirazi , G. R. Jafari

A critical temperature for a complete signed graph of $N$ agents where time-dependent links polarization tends towards the Heider (structural) balance is found analytically using the heat-bath approach and the mean-field approximation as…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-03 Krzysztof Malarz , Janusz A. Hołyst

Within the conventional statistical physics framework, we study critical phenomena in a class of configuration network models with hidden variables controlling links between pairs of nodes. We find analytical expressions for the average…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-16 Alexander I. Nesterov , Pablo Héctor Mata Villafuerte

Social network extensions of Heider's balance theory have not always been consistent. Structural balance theory primarily focuses on graph partitioning, thereby assuming, homogeneity in balance-driven behavior of nodes. We present a general…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-15 David Dekker , David Krackhardt , Patrick Doreian , Pavel N. Krivitsky

Graph attention networks learn neighbor importance through data-dependent coefficients, but standard layers lack explicit control over unreliable feature dimensions and use fixed sharpness of attention coefficient distributions. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhongtian Ma , Hao Wu , Yexin Zhang , Qiaosheng Zhang , Zhen Wang

Structural balance theory studies stability in networks. Given a $n$-vertex complete graph $G=(V,E)$ whose edges are labeled positive or negative, the graph is considered \emph{balanced} if every triangle either consists of three positive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Vikrant Ashvinkumar , Sepehr Assadi , Chengyuan Deng , Jie Gao , Chen Wang

Heider's structural balance theory has proven invaluable in comprehending the dynamics of social groups characterized by both friendly and hostile relationships. Since people's relations are rarely single-faceted, we investigate Heider…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-09 Krishnadas Mohandas , Krzysztof Suchecki , Janusz A. Holyst

Non-equilibrium steady states of quantum fields on star graphs are explicitly constructed. These states are parametrized by the temperature and the chemical potential, associated with each edge of the graph. Time reversal invariance is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-23 Mihail Mintchev
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