The Voter Model and Jump Diffusion
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چکیده
Opinions, and subsequently opinion dynamics, depend not just on interactions among individuals, but also on external influences such as the mass media. The dependence on local interactions, however, has received considerably more attention. In this paper, we use the classical voter model as a basis, and extend it to include external influences. We show that this new model can be understood using the theory of jump diffusion processes. We derive results pertaining to fixation probability and expected consensus time of the process, and find that the contribution of an external influence significantly dwarfs the contribution of the node-to-node interactions in terms of driving the social network to eventual consensus. This result suggests the potential importance of “macro-level” phenomena such as the media influence as compared to the “micro-level” local interactions, in modelling opinion dynamics.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1511.04160 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015