Social Balance on Networks: The Dynamics of Friendship and Hatred [1/30]

Опубликовано 6 сентября 2016, 16:30

We study the evolution of social networks that contain both friendly and unfriendly links between individual nodes.  The network is endowed with dynamics in which the sense of a link in an imbalanced (frustrated) triad---a triangular loop with 1 or 3 unfriendly links---is reversed to make the triad balanced.  Thus a balanced triad fulfills the adage: friend