Evolving voter model

Seminar: Probability Seminar | August 29 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 332 Evans Hall

Speaker/Performer: Rick Durrett, Duke University

Sponsor: Department of Statistics

In the evolving voter model we choose oriented edges (x,y) at random. If the two individuals have the same opinion, nothing happens. If not, x imitates y with probability 1-alpha, and otherwise severs the connection with y and picks a new neighbor at random
(i) from the graph,
or (ii) from those with the same opinion as x.
One model has a discontinuous transition, the other a continuous one.

Joint work with James Gleeson, Alun Lloyd, Peter Mucha, Feng Shi, David Sivakoff, and Chris Varghese. Proc. Nat'l. Acad. Sci. 109 (2012), 3682-3687

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