Dynamics of latent voters
(2009) Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics — Vol. 79, n° 4 Pt 2, p. 46107 (2009)
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- We study the effect of latency on binary-choice opinion formation models. Latency is introduced into the models as an additional dynamic rule: after a voter changes its opinion, it enters a waiting period of stochastic length where no further changes take place. We first focus on the voter model and show that as a result of introducing latency, the average magnetization is not conserved, and the system is driven toward zero magnetization, independently of initial conditions. The model is studied analytically in the mean-field case and by simulations in one dimension. We also address the behavior of the majority-rule model with added latency, and show that the competition between imitation and latency leads to a rich phenomenology.
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Lambiotte, R., Saramäki, J., & Blondel, V. (2009). Dynamics of latent voters. Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 79(4 Pt 2), 46107. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.79.046107 (Original work published 2009)