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Dynamics of vacillating voters

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R Lambiotte1,2 and S Redner3

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LETTER

We introduce the vacillating voter model in which each voter consults two neighbors to decide its state, and changes opinion if it disagrees with either neighbor. This irresolution leads to a global bias toward zero magnetization. In spatial dimension d>1, anti-coarsening arises in which the linear dimension L of minority domains grows as t1/(d+1). One consequence is that the time to reach consensus scales exponentially with the number of voters.


Keywords

coarsening processes (theory)

probability theory

critical phenomena of socio-economic systems

scaling in socio-economic systems

 

E-print Number: 0710.0914

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PACS

05.50.+q Lattice theory and statistics (Ising, Potts, etc.)

02.50.Cw Probability theory

05.40.-a Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and Brownian motion

MSC

82C20 Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs

60Bxx Probability theory on algebraic and topological structures

Subjects

Computational physics

Statistical physics and nonlinear systems

Dates

Issue 10 (October 2007)

Received 5 October 2007, accepted for publication 8 October 2007

Published 23 October 2007



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