Nonequilibrium phase transition in a model for social influence

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 3536-3539

  Castellano, Claudio ^a   Marsili, Matteo ^b   Vespignani, Alessandro ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATA THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

AXELROD MODEL; MEAN FIELD EQUATIONS; SOCIAL INFLUENCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0034301597     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3536     Document Type: Article

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12. Qualitatively, the results we obtained do not depend on the equation for ρ, which can indeed even be considered as a time independent constant.