Spontaneous emergence of a third position in an opinioin formation model

MARCOS E. GAUDIANO; JORGE A. REVELLI

Punta del Este

Congreso; the 5th Dynamics Days Latin America and the Caribbean; 2018

Opinion dynamics is one of the most studied problems in sociophysics. Many easy-to-analyze dynamical systms are modelled in a laguag of agent-based numerical procedures in order to provide new insights for understanding collective phenomena. The present work s devoted to analyze the effects of spatial heterogeneties in the inital topological map of agent ideas. In the spirit of the statistical physics of social impact, we study the consequences of running a Snajd model into a structured opinion formation dynamics of a given social community. We carry out a spatio-temporal fractal analysis of the ideological configuration map., showing novel features belonging to diffeerent initial conditions. By performing numerical simulations, we maiinly show how the evolution of ideas can lead to a spontaneous emergence of a third ideological position. This emergence is just characterized by few parameters: the dimensionality of the initial ideological structures and the interaction dynamics. No additional external constrains are assumed.Moreover, the third position presents a non-monotonous dependence with the system fractality.