Benjamini et al.'s conjecture on consensus in sparse random-graph majority dynamics

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Let G(n,p)G(n,p) be a random graph, let PtP_t and NtN_t denote the sets of vertices playing the two strategies at time tt, and let dd be the parameter in the condition p≥d/np\geq d/n. Consider the majority dynamics process with a uniformly chosen initial state. With high probability over the choice of the random graph and the initial state, the following holds. Benjamini et al.'s conjecture. If d≫1d\gg 1, then, for every ε>0\varepsilon>0 and all sufficiently large nn,

lim⁡t→∞∣∣P2t∣−∣N2t∣∣∈[(1−ε)n,n].\lim_{t\rightarrow\infty}\left|\lvert P_{2t}\rvert-\lvert N_{2t}\rvert\right|\in[(1-\varepsilon)n,n].

If dd is bounded, then, for every ε>0\varepsilon>0 and all sufficiently large nn,

lim⁡t→∞∣∣P2t∣−∣N2t∣∣∈[(1−ε/2)n,(1+ε/2)n].\lim_{t\rightarrow\infty}\left|\lvert P_{2t}\rvert-\lvert N_{2t}\rvert\right|\in[(1-\varepsilon/2)n,(1+\varepsilon/2)n].

The conjecture concerns the poorly understood evolution of majority dynamics on random graphs in the sparse regime p=o(n−1/2)p=o(n^{-1/2}), beyond the regimes treated by the paper; apart from eventual periodicity, little is known about the dynamics.

References

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Jordan Chellig, Calina Durbac and Nikolaos Fountoulakis, “Best response dynamics on random graphs”, arXiv:2011.12983 (2020).

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