Citation

Singh P, Sreenivasan S, Szymanski BK, Korniss G. Phys. Rev. E 2016; 93(4-1): e042306.

Affiliation

Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, New York 12180-3590, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, American Physical Society)

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevE.93.042306

PMID

27176311

Abstract

We study a three-state (leftist, rightist, centrist) model that couples the dynamics of social balance with an external deradicalizing field. The mean-field analysis shows that there exists a critical value of the external field p_{c} such that for a weak external field (pp_{c}), there is only one (stable) fixed point, which corresponds to an all-centrist consensus state (absorbing state). In the weak-field regime, the convergence time to the absorbing state is evaluated using the quasistationary distribution and is found to be in agreement with the results obtained by numerical simulations.

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