466 research outputs found
Modelling Collective Opinion Formation by Means of Active Brownian Particles
The concept of active Brownian particles is used to model a collective
opinion formation process. It is assumed that individuals in community create a
two-component communication field that influences the change of opinions of
other persons and/or can induce their migration. The communication field is
described by a reaction-diffusion equation, the opinion change of the
individuals is given by a master equation, while the migration is described by
a set of Langevin equations, coupled by the communication field. In the
mean-field limit holding for fast communication we derive a critical population
size, above which the community separates into a majority and a minority with
opposite opinions. The existence of external support (e.g. from mass media)
changes the ratio between minority and majority, until above a critical
external support the supported subpopulation exists always as a majority.
Spatial effects lead to two critical ``social'' temperatures, between which the
community exists in a metastable state, thus fluctuations below a certain
critical wave number may result in a spatial opinion separation. The range of
metastability is particularly determined by a parameter characterizing the
individual response to the communication field. In our discussion, we draw
analogies to phase transitions in physical systems.Comment: Revised text version. Accepted for publication in European Physics
Journal B. For related work see
http://summa.physik.hu-berlin.de/~frank/active.html and
http://www.if.pw.edu.pl/~jholys
High dimensional Hoffman bound and applications in extremal combinatorics
One powerful method for upper-bounding the largest independent set in a graph
is the Hoffman bound, which gives an upper bound on the largest independent set
of a graph in terms of its eigenvalues. It is easily seen that the Hoffman
bound is sharp on the tensor power of a graph whenever it is sharp for the
original graph.
In this paper, we introduce the related problem of upper-bounding independent
sets in tensor powers of hypergraphs. We show that many of the prominent open
problems in extremal combinatorics, such as the Tur\'an problem for
(hyper-)graphs, can be encoded as special cases of this problem. We also give a
new generalization of the Hoffman bound for hypergraphs which is sharp for the
tensor power of a hypergraph whenever it is sharp for the original hypergraph.
As an application of our Hoffman bound, we make progress on the problem of
Frankl on families of sets without extended triangles from 1990. We show that
if then the extremal family is the star,
i.e. the family of all sets that contains a given element. This covers the
entire range in which the star is extremal. As another application, we provide
spectral proofs for Mantel's theorem on triangle-free graphs and for
Frankl-Tokushige theorem on -wise intersecting families
Boolean degree 1 functions on some classical association schemes
We investigate Boolean degree 1 functions for several classical association
schemes, including Johnson graphs, Grassmann graphs, graphs from polar spaces,
and bilinear forms graphs, as well as some other domains such as multislices
(Young subgroups of the symmetric group). In some settings, Boolean degree 1
functions are also known as \textit{completely regular strength 0 codes of
covering radius 1}, \textit{Cameron--Liebler line classes}, and \textit{tight
sets}.
We classify all Boolean degree functions on the multislice. On the
Grassmann scheme we show that all Boolean degree functions are
trivial for , and , and that
for general , the problem can be reduced to classifying all Boolean degree
functions on . We also consider polar spaces and the bilinear
forms graphs, giving evidence that all Boolean degree functions are trivial
for appropriate choices of the parameters.Comment: 22 pages; accepted by JCTA; corrected Conjecture 6.
A theory of simplicity in games and mechanism design
We study extensive‐form games and mechanisms allowing agents that plan for only a subset of future decisions they may be called to make (the planning horizon). Agents may update their so‐called strategic plan as the game progresses and new decision points enter their planning horizon. We introduce a family of simplicity standards which require that the prescribed action leads to unambiguously better outcomes, no matter what happens outside the planning horizon. We employ these standards to explore the trade‐off between simplicity and other objectives, to characterize simple mechanisms in a wide range of economic environments, and to delineate the simplicity of common mechanisms such as posted prices and ascending auctions, with the former being simpler than the latter
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