Worldwide bilateral geopolitical interactions network inferred from national disciplinary profiles

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Autori principali: Izzo, Maria Grazia, Daraio, Cinzia, Leuzzi, Luca, Quaglia, Giammarco, Ruocco, Giancarlo
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author Izzo, Maria Grazia
Daraio, Cinzia
Leuzzi, Luca
Quaglia, Giammarco
Ruocco, Giancarlo
author_facet Izzo, Maria Grazia
Daraio, Cinzia
Leuzzi, Luca
Quaglia, Giammarco
Ruocco, Giancarlo
contents A disciplinary profile of a country is defined as the versor whose components are the numbers of articles produced in a given discipline divided the overall production of the country. Starting from the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) schema of classification of subject area, we obtained the yearly disciplinary profiles of a worldwide graph, where on each node sits a country, in the two time intervals [1980-1988] and [1992-2017], the fall of the Berlin Wall being the watershed. We analyse the empirical pairwise cross-correlation matrices of the time series of disciplinary profiles. The contrast with random matrix theory proves that, beyond measurement noise, the empirical cross-correlation matrices bring genuine information. Arising from the Shannon theorem as the least-structured model consistent with the measured pairwise correlations, the stationary probability distribution of disciplinary profiles can be described by a Boltzmann distribution related to a generalized $n_d$-dimensional Heisenberg model. The set of network interactions of the Heisenberg model have been inferred and to it they have been applied two clusterization methods, hierarchical clustering and principal component analysis. On a geopolitical plane this allow to obtain a characterization of the worldwide bilateral interactions based on physical modeling. A simple geopolitical analysis reveals the consistency of the results obtained and gives a boost to deeper historical analysis. In order to obtain the optimal set of pairwise interactions we used a Pseudo-Likelihood approach. We analytically computed the Pseudo-Likelihood and its gradient. The analytical computations deserve interest in whatever inference Bayesian problem involving a $n_d$-dimensional Heisenberg model.
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Izzo, Maria Grazia
Daraio, Cinzia
Leuzzi, Luca
Quaglia, Giammarco
Ruocco, Giancarlo
Physics and Society
A disciplinary profile of a country is defined as the versor whose components are the numbers of articles produced in a given discipline divided the overall production of the country. Starting from the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) schema of classification of subject area, we obtained the yearly disciplinary profiles of a worldwide graph, where on each node sits a country, in the two time intervals [1980-1988] and [1992-2017], the fall of the Berlin Wall being the watershed. We analyse the empirical pairwise cross-correlation matrices of the time series of disciplinary profiles. The contrast with random matrix theory proves that, beyond measurement noise, the empirical cross-correlation matrices bring genuine information. Arising from the Shannon theorem as the least-structured model consistent with the measured pairwise correlations, the stationary probability distribution of disciplinary profiles can be described by a Boltzmann distribution related to a generalized $n_d$-dimensional Heisenberg model. The set of network interactions of the Heisenberg model have been inferred and to it they have been applied two clusterization methods, hierarchical clustering and principal component analysis. On a geopolitical plane this allow to obtain a characterization of the worldwide bilateral interactions based on physical modeling. A simple geopolitical analysis reveals the consistency of the results obtained and gives a boost to deeper historical analysis. In order to obtain the optimal set of pairwise interactions we used a Pseudo-Likelihood approach. We analytically computed the Pseudo-Likelihood and its gradient. The analytical computations deserve interest in whatever inference Bayesian problem involving a $n_d$-dimensional Heisenberg model.
title Worldwide bilateral geopolitical interactions network inferred from national disciplinary profiles
topic Physics and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07165