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Social contagions on multiplex networks with heterogeneous population

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  • Zhu, Shu-Shan
  • Zhu, Xu-Zhen
  • Wang, Jian-Qun
  • Zhang, Zeng-Ping
  • Wang, Wei

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In this paper, we study the effects of heterogeneous population on the dynamics of social contagions on multiplex networks. We assume a fraction of f nodes with a higher adoption threshold T>1, and the remaining fraction of 1−f nodes with adoption threshold 1. A social contagion model is proposed to describe the social contagions, in which a susceptible node adopting the contagion only when its received accumulated information is larger than the adoption threshold in either subnetwork. With an edge-based compartmental approach and extensive numerical simulations, we find that the system exhibits a continuous phase transition for small values of f, while shows a hybrid phase transition for relatively large values of f and T. For homogeneous multiplex networks the hybrid phase transition occurs, while there is only a continuous phase transition for heterogeneous multiplex networks. Our theoretical predictions agree well with numerical simulations.

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  • Zhu, Shu-Shan & Zhu, Xu-Zhen & Wang, Jian-Qun & Zhang, Zeng-Ping & Wang, Wei, 2019. "Social contagions on multiplex networks with heterogeneous population," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 516(C), pages 105-113.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:516:y:2019:i:c:p:105-113
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2018.10.010
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