Graph-Theoretic Analysis of Belief System Dynamics under Logic Constraints

Angelia Nedić, Alex Olshevsky, César A. Uribe

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Abstract

Opinion formation cannot be modeled solely as an ideological deduction from a set of principles; rather, repeated social interactions and logic constraints among statements are consequential in the construct of belief systems. We address three basic questions in the analysis of social opinion dynamics: (i) Will a belief system converge? (ii) How long does it take to converge? (iii) Where does it converge? We provide graph-theoretic answers to these questions for a model of opinion dynamics of a belief system with logic constraints. Our results make plain the implicit dependence of the convergence properties of a belief system on the underlying social network and on the set of logic constraints that relate beliefs on different statements. Moreover, we provide an explicit analysis of a variety of commonly used large-scale network models.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number8843
JournalScientific reports
Volume9
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2019

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