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Order–disorder–order transitions and winning margins’ scaling in kinetic exchange opinion model

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: The kinetic exchange opinion model shows a well-studied order–disorder transition as the noise parameter, representing discord between interacting agents, is increased. A further increase in the noise drives the model, in low dimensions, to an extreme segregation ordering through a transition of similar nature. The scaling behavior of the winning margins has distinct features in the ordered and disordered phases that are similar to the observations noted recently in election data in various countries, explaining the qualitative differences in such scaling between tightly contested and land-slide election victories.

Source: International Journal of Modern Physics C

DOI: 10.1142/s0129183126500191

Authors: Soumyajyoti Biswas, Mandhalapu Sree Annapurna, Venkatasubbaiah Jakkampudi, Dushyanth Yarlagadda, Bhargav Thota

Institutions: SRM University, Andhra Pradesh, SRM University

Language: English

Topic: Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence

Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4413436238

FWCI: 0.42

Cites: 32

Cited by: 1

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