Convergence to a stable equilibrium for random initial opinions
Convergence to a stable equilibrium for random initial opinions
Consider the continuous-time opinion-dynamics system with agents, and choose the agents' initial opinions independently and randomly according to a bounded probability density function with connected support that is bounded below by a positive number on its support. Random convergence conjecture. The probability that the system converges to a stable equilibrium tends to as the number of agents tends to infinity.
The conjecture concerns the observed convergence behavior of the model: the paper proves convergence to clusters and characterizes stable equilibria, but does not establish that random initial conditions converge to a stable equilibrium with probability tending to one.
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Vincent D. Blondel, Julien M. Hendrickx and John N. Tsitsiklis, “Continuous-time average-preserving opinion dynamics with opinion-dependent communications”, arXiv:0907.4662 (2009).
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