Effects of the underlying topology on perturbation spreading in the Axelrod model for cultural dissemination

摘要: Abstract We study the effects of underlying topologies on a single feature perturbation imposed to Axelrod model consensus formation. From numerical simulations we show that there are successive updates which similar avalanches in many self-organized criticality systems when is imposed. find distribution avalanche size satisfies finite-size scaling (FSS) ansatz two-dimensional lattices and random networks. However, scale-free networks with degree exponent γ ≤ 3 does not satisfy FSS ansatz. The results indicate disordered configurations or still stable against limit N (network size) → ∞ . always drives phase into an ordered phase. possible relationship between properties transition also discussed.