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Main Authors: Wang, Lingfei, Xing, Yu, Johansson, Karl H.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05063
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author Wang, Lingfei
Xing, Yu
Johansson, Karl H.
author_facet Wang, Lingfei
Xing, Yu
Johansson, Karl H.
contents This paper studies the formation of final opinions for the Friedkin-Johnsen (FJ) model with a community of partially stubborn agents. The underlying network of the FJ model is symmetric and generated from a random graph model, in which each link is added independently from a Bernoulli distribution. It is shown that the final opinions of the FJ model will concentrate around those of an FJ model over the expected graph as the network size grows, on the condition that the stubborn agents are well connected to other agents. Probability bounds are proposed for the distance between these two final opinion vectors, respectively for the cases where there exist non-stubborn agents or not. Numerical experiments are provided to illustrate the theoretical findings. The simulation shows that, in presence of non-stubborn agents, the link probability between the stubborn and the non-stubborn communities affect the distance between the two final opinion vectors significantly. Additionally, if all agents are stubborn, the opinion distance decreases with the agent stubbornness.
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spellingShingle On final opinions of the Friedkin-Johnsen model over random graphs with partially stubborn community
Wang, Lingfei
Xing, Yu
Johansson, Karl H.
Systems and Control
This paper studies the formation of final opinions for the Friedkin-Johnsen (FJ) model with a community of partially stubborn agents. The underlying network of the FJ model is symmetric and generated from a random graph model, in which each link is added independently from a Bernoulli distribution. It is shown that the final opinions of the FJ model will concentrate around those of an FJ model over the expected graph as the network size grows, on the condition that the stubborn agents are well connected to other agents. Probability bounds are proposed for the distance between these two final opinion vectors, respectively for the cases where there exist non-stubborn agents or not. Numerical experiments are provided to illustrate the theoretical findings. The simulation shows that, in presence of non-stubborn agents, the link probability between the stubborn and the non-stubborn communities affect the distance between the two final opinion vectors significantly. Additionally, if all agents are stubborn, the opinion distance decreases with the agent stubbornness.
title On final opinions of the Friedkin-Johnsen model over random graphs with partially stubborn community
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05063