# Neighborhood models of minority opinion spreading

@article{Tessone2004NeighborhoodMO,
title={Neighborhood models of minority opinion spreading},
author={Claudio J. Tessone and Ra{\'u}l Toral and Pau Amengual and Horacio S. Wio and Maxi San Miguel},
journal={The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems},
year={2004},
volume={39},
pages={535-544}
}
• Published 13 March 2004
• Physics
• The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems
Abstract.We study the effect of finite size population in Galam’s model [Eur. Phys. J. B 25, 403 (2002)] of minority opinion spreading and introduce neighborhood models that account for local spatial effects. For systems of different sizes N, the time to reach consensus is shown to scale as $\ln N$ in the original version, while the evolution is much slower in the new neighborhood models. The threshold value of the initial concentration of minority supporters for the defeat of the initial…
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