Opinion Exchange Dynamics

Creators: Mossel, Elchanan; Tamuz, Omer

Abstract

The exchange of opinions between individuals is a fundamental social interaction that plays a role in nearly any social, political and economic process. While it is unlikely that a simple mathematical model can accurately describe the exchange of opinions between two people, one could hope to gain some insights on emergent phenomena that affect large groups of people.

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© 2017 Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Received: January 2014. First available in Project Euclid: 27 June 2017. Allan Sly is our main collaborator in this field. We are grateful to him for allowing us to include some of our joint results, as well as for all that we learned from him. The manuscript was prepared for the 9th Probability Summer School in Cornell, which took place in July 2013.We are grateful to Laurent Saloff-Coste and Lionel Levine for organizing the school and for the participants for helpful comments and discussions. We would like to thank Shachar Kariv for introducing us to this field, and Eilon Solan for encouraging us to continue working in it. The research of Elchanan Mossel is partially supported by NSF grants DMS 1106999 and CCF 1320105, and by ONR grant N000141110140. Omer Tamuz was supported by a Google Europe Fellowship in Social Computing.

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