Dynamics of social balance on networks: The emergence of multipolar societies
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.104.034303" target="_blank" >10.1103/PhysRevE.104.034303</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Dynamics of social balance on networks: The emergence of multipolar societies
Original language description
Within the context of social balance theory, much attention has been paid to the attainment and stability of unipolar or bipolar societies. However, multipolar societies are commonplace in the real world, despite the fact that the mechanism of their emergence is much less explored. Here, we investigate the evolution of a society of interacting agents with friendly (positive) and enmity (negative) relations into a final stable multipolar state. Triads are assigned energy according to the degree of tension they impose on the network. Agents update their connections to decrease the total energy (tension) of the system, on average. Our approach is to consider a variable energy ϵ∈[0,1] for triads which are entirely made of negative relations. We show that the final state of the system depends on the initial density of the friendly links ρ0. For initial densities greater than an ϵ-dependent threshold ρ0c(ϵ), a unipolar (paradise) state is reached. However, for ρ0≤ρ0c(ϵ), multipolar and bipolar states can emerge. We observe that the number of stable final poles increases with decreasing ϵ where the first transition from bipolar to multipolar society occurs at ϵ∗≈0.67. We end the paper by providing a mean-field calculation that provides an estimate for the critical (ϵ dependent) initial positive link density, which is consistent with our simulations.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10302 - Condensed matter physics (including formerly solid state physics, supercond.)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Physical Review E
ISSN
2470-0045
e-ISSN
2470-0053
Volume of the periodical
104
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
034303
UT code for WoS article
000697774300004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85115137471