Does a single zealot affect an infinite group of voters?

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作者
Mobilia, M [1 ]
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[1] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, Inst Mat, LOMM, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
[2] Boston Univ, Ctr Biodynam, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[3] Boston Univ, Ctr Polymer Studies, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[4] Boston Univ, Dept Phys, Boston, MA 02215 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.028701
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
A method for studying the exact properties of a class of inhomogeneous stochastic many-body systems is developed and presented in the framework of a voter model perturbed by the presence of a "zealot," an individual allowed to favor an "opinion." We compute exactly the magnetization of this model and find that in one (1D) and two dimensions (2D) it evolves, algebraically (similar tot(-1/2)) in 1D and much slower (similar to1/lnt) in 2D, towards the unanimity state chosen by the zealot. In higher dimensions the stationary magnetization is no longer uniform: the zealot cannot influence all the individuals. The implications to other physical problems are also pointed out.
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