Passive Supporters of Terrorism and Phase Transitions
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چکیده
We discuss some social contagion processes to describe the formation and spread of radical opinions in the spirit of previous work by Serge Galam. The dynamics of opinion spread involves local threshold processes as well as mean field effects. We calculate and observe phase transitions in the dynamical variables resulting in a rapidly increasing number of passive supporters. This strongly indicates that military solutions are inappropriate. Passive Supporters of Terrorism and Phase Transitions Friedrich August, Philippe Blanchard∗, Sascha Delitzscher∗,1, Gerald Hiller, Tyll Krueger∗,2 + Dept of Mathematics, TU Berlin, D-10623 Berlin, Germany ∗ Dept of Physics, University Bielefeld, D-33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1010.1953 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010