Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2004-11-02
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
7 pages sociophysics, including all figs., for Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 16, issue 4
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0129183105007364
The method of Damage Spreading was used to simulate the influence that a single persons' change of opionion has on the consensus opinion built up in a population if one assumes opinions to form according to the Sznajd Model. The results confirm the intuitive assumption that there is hardly any chance for one person to change the consensus, that the effect of this change dies out after a certain time and its range decreases with time. The consensus times were compared and it turned out that the consensus can be delayed or accelerated by this slight modification and that the amount of the difference in the consensus times obeys a certain power law as well as the lifetime of the effect. Moreover two scaling laws concerning temporal and spatial aspects could be observed up to a certain size of population.
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Typical Stauffer-theme. I like it, has to be continued.
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