https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2002-00418-0
Persistence of opinion in the Sznajd consensus model: computer simulation
Laboratoire PMMH, École Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles, 10
rue Vauquelin, 75231 Paris, Cedex 05, France
Corresponding author: a stauffer@thp.uni-koeln.de
Received:
22
August
2002
Revised:
12
November
2002
Published online:
31
December
2002
The density of never changed opinions during the Sznajd consensus-finding
process decays with time t as 
. We find 
for a chain, compatible with the exact Ising result of
Derrida et al. In higher dimensions, however, the exponent differs from the
Ising θ. With simultaneous updating of sublattices instead of the
usual random sequential updating, the number of persistent opinions decays
roughly exponentially. Some of the simulations used multi-spin coding.
PACS: 05.50.+q – Lattice theory and statistics (Ising, Potts, etc.) / 89.65.-s – Social systems
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2002
