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We study the mean-field limit of a generic class of dynamic co-evolving latent space networks motivated by the social and opinion dynamics literature. Such models include $n$ agents, whose opinions are given by latent stochastic processes,…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Ankan Ganguly , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos , Daniel Sussman

Individuals are always limited by some inelastic resources, such as time and energy, which restrict them to dedicate to social interaction and limit their contact capacity. Contact capacity plays an important role in dynamics of social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-25 Wei Wang , Panpan Shu , Yu-Xiao Zhu , Ming Tang , Yi-Cheng Zhang

To what extent do the characteristic features of a chemical reaction network reflect its purpose and function? In general, one argues that correlations between specific features and specific functions are key to understanding a complex…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-22 Sang Hoon Lee , Sebastian Bernhardsson , Petter Holme , Beom Jun Kim , Petter Minnhagen

We study the asymptotic behaviour of a system of nonlinear reaction--diffusion--advection equations in a domain consisting of two bulk regions connected via microscopic channels distributed within a thin membrane. Both the width of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Lucas M. Fix , Gianna Götzmann , Malte A. Peter , Jan-F. Pietschmann

The theory of pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems is extended to the case of a directed network. Due to the structure of the network Laplacian of the scrutinised system, the dispersion relation has both real and imaginary parts,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-08-01 Malbor Asllani , Joseph D. Challenger , Francesco Saverio Pavone , Leonardo Sacconi , Duccio Fanelli

Reaction diffusion equations have been used to model a wide range of biological phenomenon related to population spread and proliferation from ecology to cancer. It is commonly assumed that individuals in a population have homogeneous…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-04-14 Kyle Nguyen , Erica M. Rutter , Kevin Flores

We investigate the phenomenon of diffusion in a countably infinite society of individuals interacting with their neighbors in a network. At a given time, each individual is either active or inactive. The diffusion is driven by two…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Michel Grabisch , Agnieszka Rusinowska , Xavier Venel

The network density matrix formalism allows for describing the dynamics of information on top of complex structures and it has been successfully used to analyze from system's robustness to perturbations to coarse graining multilayer…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-05-03 Arsham Ghavasieh , Manlio De Domenico

The spread of new ideas, behaviors or technologies has been extensively studied using epidemic models. Here we consider a model of diffusion where the individuals' behavior is the result of a strategic choice. We study a simple coordination…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Marc Lelarge

The analysis of contagion-diffusion processes in metapopulations is a powerful theoretical tool to study how mobility influences the spread of communicable diseases. Nevertheless, many metapopulation approaches use indistinguishable agents…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-20 Pablo Valgañón , David Soriano-Paños , Alex Arenas , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes

Empirical temporal networks display strong heterogeneities in their dynamics, which profoundly affect processes taking place on these networks, such as rumor and epidemic spreading. Despite the recent wealth of data on temporal networks,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-13 Christian L. Vestergaard , Mathieu Génois , Alain Barrat

Understanding the asymptotic behavior of reaction-diffusion (RD) systems is crucial for modeling processes ranging from species coexistence in ecology to biochemical interactions within cells. In this work, we analyze RD systems in which…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Carlos Barajas , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Domitilla Del Vecchio

Nakao and Mikhailov proposed using continuous models (mean-field models) to study reaction-diffusion systems on networks and the corresponding Turing patterns. This work aims to show that p-adic analysis is the natural tool to carry out…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-03 W. A. Zúñiga-Galindo

We investigate the chemical dissolution of porous media using a network model in which the system is represented as a series of interconnected pipes with the diameter of each segment increasing in proportion to the local reactant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-12 Agnieszka Budek , Piotr Szymczak

In the reaction-diffusion process $A+B \to \varnothing$ on random scale-free (SF) networks with the degree exponent $\gamma$, the particle density decays with time in a power law with an exponent $\alpha$ when initial densities of each…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 C. -K. Yun , B. Kahng , D. Kim

We study the non-equilibrium phase transition in a model for epidemic spreading on scale-free networks. The model consists of two particle species $A$ and $B$, and the coupling between them is taken to be asymmetric; $A$ induces $B$ while…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yong-Yeol Ahn , Naoki Masuda , Hawoong Jeong , Jae Dong Noh

Face-to-face interaction networks describe social interactions in human gatherings, and are the substrate for processes such as epidemic spreading and gossip propagation. The bursty nature of human behavior characterizes many aspects of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-04-24 Michele Starnini , Andrea Baronchelli , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

We show that very simple molecular systems, modeled as chemical reaction networks, can have behaviors that exhibit dramatic phase transitions at certain population thresholds. Moreover, the magnitudes of these thresholds can thwart attempts…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-06-02 James I. Lathrop , Jack H. Lutz , Robyn R. Lutz , Hugh D. Potter , Matthew R. Riley

We consider processes that coincide with a given diffusion process except on the boundaries of a finite collection of domains. The behavior on each of the boundaries is asymmetric: the process is much more likely to enter the interior of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Mark Freidlin , Leonid Koralov

Meta-population networks are effective tools for capturing population movement across distinct regions, but the assumption of well-mixed regions fails to capture the reality of population higher-order interactions. As a multidimensional…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-18 Yanyi Nie , Yanbing Liu , Qixuan Cao , Tao Lin , Wei Wang