Voter Models on Heterogeneous Networks

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2007-12-27

arxiv.org/abs/0712.4288v2

Phys. Rev. E 77, 041121 (2008)

Physics

Physics and Society

13 pages, 9 figures, 2 column revetx4 format; version 2 is the final published version that contains minor changes in response

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.77.041121

We study simple interacting particle systems on heterogeneous networks, including the voter model and the invasion process. These are both two-state models in which in an update event an individual changes state to agree with a neighbor. For the voter model, an individual "imports" its state from a randomly-chosen neighbor. Here the average time T_N to reach consensus for a network of N nodes with an uncorrelated degree distribution scales as N mu_1^2/mu_2, where mu_k is the kth moment of the degree distribution. Quick consensus thus arises on networks with broad degree distributions. We also identify the conservation law that characterizes the route by which consensus is reached. Parallel results are derived for the invasion process, in which the state of an agent is "exported" to a random neighbor. We further generalize to biased dynamics in which one state is favored. The probability for a single fitter mutant located at a node of degree k to overspread the population--the fixation probability--is proportional to k for the voter model and to 1/k for the invasion process.

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