Conservation laws for the voter model in complex networks

Details Conservation laws for the voter model in complex networks Conservation laws for the voter model in complex networks

2004-08-04

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0408101v1

Europhysics Letters 69, 228-234 (2005)

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Condensed Matter

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5 pages, 4 figures; for related material please visit http://www.imedea.uib.es

Scientific paper

10.1209/epl/i2004-10329-8

We consider the voter model dynamics in random networks with an arbitrary distribution of the degree of the nodes. We find that for the usual node-update dynamics the average magnetization is not conserved, while an average magnetization weighted by the degree of the node is conserved. However, for a link-update dynamics the average magnetization is still conserved. For the particular case of a Barabasi-Albert scale-free network the voter model dynamics leads to a partially ordered metastable state with a finite size survival time. This characteristic time scales linearly with system size only when the updating rule respects the conservation law of the average magnetization. This scaling identifies a universal or generic property of the voter model dynamics associated with the conservation law of the magnetization.

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