Statistical mechanics of social impact
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 45 (2), 763-776
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.45.763
Abstract
We discuss the mean-field theory for a class of probabilistic cellular automata that can describe the dynamics of social impact. The models exhibit complex intermittent behavior.Keywords
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