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Power of the Crowd

Probability 2022-09-29 v3 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Consider an Galton Watson tree of height mm: each leaf has one of kk opinions or not. In other words, for i{1,...,k}i \in \{1, . . . , k\}, xx at generation mm thinks ii with probability pip_i and nothing with probability p0p_0. Moreover the opinions are independently distributed for each leaf. Opinions spread along the tree based on a specific rule: the majority wins! In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of the distribution of the opinion of the root when m+m \to +\infty.

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@article{arxiv.2112.08042,
  title  = {Power of the Crowd},
  author = {Athanasios Batakis and Pierre Debs and Dorian Le Peutrec},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.08042},
  year   = {2022}
}

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30 pages, 13 figures, 1 table

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