https://doi.org/10.1140/e10051-002-0013-y
Election results and the Sznajd model on Barabasi network
1
Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Campus do Morro do Cruzeiro, 35400-000, Ouro Preto-MG, Brazil
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Institute for Theoretical Physics, Cologne University, 50923 Köln, Germany
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Department of Theoretical Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budafoki út 8, 1111, Budapest, Hungary
Corresponding author: a stauffer@thp.uni-koeln.de
Received:
19
September
2001
Revised:
2
November
2001
Published online: 15 January 2002
The network of Barabasi and Albert, a preferential growth model where a new node is linked to the old ones with a probability proportional to their connectivity, is applied to Brazilian election results. The application of the Sznajd rule, that only agreeing pairs of people can convince their neighbours, gives a vote distribution in good agreement with reality
PACS: 05.50.+q – Lattice theory and statistics (Ising, Potts, etc.) / 89.65.-s – Social systems / 02.50.-r – Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2002
