The Dynamics of Multidimensional Secession: Fixed Points and Ideological Condensation
- 25 June 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 90 (25) , 258103
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.90.258103
Abstract
We explore a generalized, stochastic seceder model of societal dynamics with variable size polling groups and higher-dimensional opinion vectors, revealing its essential modes of self-organized segregation. Renormalizing to a discrete, deterministic version, we pin down the upper critical size of the sampling group and analytically uncover a self-similar hierarchy of dynamically stable, multiple-branch fixed points. In , the evolving, coarsening population suffers collapse to a 2D ideological plane.
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