Convergence of the population's average opinion toward the leaders' average opinion

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Let f(t,A,w)f(t,A,w) be the population distribution, let fℓ(z)f_\ell(z) be the leaders' opinion distribution, and define the population's average opinion and the leaders' average opinion by

mw(t)=∫R×Iwf(t,A,w) dA dw,μℓ=∫Izfℓ(z) dz.m_w(t)=\int_{\mathbb{R}\times I}w f(t,A,w)\,\mathrm{d}A\,\mathrm{d}w,\qquad \mu_\ell=\int_I z f_\ell(z)\,\mathrm{d}z.

Assume that the interaction function satisfies G≡1G\equiv 1. Convergence conjecture. The average opinion of the population mw(t)m_w(t) converges toward the average opinion of the leaders μℓ\mu_\ell as t→+∞t\to+\infty:

lim⁡t→+∞mw(t)=μℓ.\lim_{t\to+\infty}m_w(t)=\mu_\ell.

The conjecture concerns the long-time influence of leaders on the population's mean opinion; the preceding evolution equation shows that, for G≡1G\equiv1, the mean is driven by its difference from the leaders' average opinion. No resolution is supplied in the source.

References

Primary source

Andrea Bondesan and Jacopo Borsotti, “Control strategies and trends to equilibrium for kinetic models of opinion dynamics driven by social activity”, arXiv:2506.07840 (2026).

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