A stabilization theorem for dynamics of continuous opinions

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 355, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 217-223

  Lorenz, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Continuous opinion dynamics; Non negative matrices; Positive diagonal; Repeated averaging

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RANDOM PROCESSES; THEOREM PROVING;

CONTINUOUS OPINION DYNAMICS; NON-NEGATIVE MATRICES; POSITIVE DIAGNOL; REPEATED AVERAGING;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 21444461445     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2005.02.086     Document Type: Conference Paper

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