Persistent agents in Axelrod's social dynamics model

Axelrod's model of social dynamics has been studied under the effect of external media. Here we study the formation of cultural domains in the model by introducing persistent agents. These are agents whose cultural traits are not allowed to change but may be spread through local neighborhood. I...

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Published in:Europhysics letters 2016-01, Vol.113 (1), p.18003-18003
Main Authors: Reia, Sandro M., C. Neves, Ubiraci P.
Format: Article
Language:English
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05.50.+q
87.23.Ge
89.75.Fb
Adhesion
Bonding agents
Constants
Cultural aspects
Decay
Dynamical systems
Dynamics
Information dissemination
Mathematical models
Phase diagrams
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Summary:Axelrod's model of social dynamics has been studied under the effect of external media. Here we study the formation of cultural domains in the model by introducing persistent agents. These are agents whose cultural traits are not allowed to change but may be spread through local neighborhood. In the absence of persistent agents, the system is known to present a transition from a monocultural to a multicultural regime at some critical Q (number of traits). Our results reveal a dependence of critical Q on the occupation probability p of persistent agents and we obtain the phase diagram of the model in the -plane. The critical locus is explained by the competition of two opposite forces named here barrier and bonding effects. Such forces are verified to be caused by non-persistent agents which adhere (adherent agents) to the set of traits of persistent ones. The adherence (concentration of adherent agents) as a function of p is found to decay for constant Q. Furthermore, adherence as a function of Q is found to decay as a power law with constant p.
ISSN:0295-5075
1286-4854
DOI:10.1209/0295-5075/113/18003