Polarization and consensus by opposing external sources

D Bhat, S Redner - Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We introduce a socially motivated extension of the voter model in which individual voters are
also influenced by two opposing, fixed-opinion news sources. These sources forestall …

Characterizing consensus in threshold Boolean networks

GA Ruz, E Goles - 2022 International Joint Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Consensus has become an active research topic in the field of social science, blockchain,
and decision-making, to name a few. The study of how a group of people, entities, or agents …

Gambler's Ruin: the Limiting Distribution of Points Visited Exactly Once of a Simple Random Walk Up to Time of Exit and the Influencer Voter Model

C Hatton - 2022 - search.proquest.com
In this thesis we analyze two stochastic processes. We first consider the simple symmetric
random walk on the domain [0, N] subset {Z} with a particular interest in the points visited …