On the rise and fall of networked societies

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2005-05-03

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0505019v1

Physics

Physics and Society

6 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of Granada Workshop 2005

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2008597

We review recent results on the dynamics of social networks which suggest that the interplay between the network formation process and volatility may lead to the occurrence of discontinuous phase transitions and phase coexistence in a large class of models. We then investigate the effects of negative links -- links inhibiting local growth of the network -- and of a geographical distribution of the agents in such models. We show, by extensive numerical simulations, that both effects enhance this phenomenology, i.e. it increases the size of the coexistence region.

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