Large population limits of Markov processes on random networks
arXiv:2210.02934 · doi:10.1016/j.spa.2023.09.007
Abstract
We consider time-continuous Markovian discrete-state dynamics on random networks of interacting agents and study the large population limit. The dynamics are projected onto low-dimensional collective variables given by the shares of each discrete state in the system, or in certain subsystems, and general conditions for the convergence of the collective variable dynamics to a mean-field ordinary differential equation are proved. We discuss the convergence to this mean-field limit for a continuous-time noisy version of the so-called ``voter model'' on Erdős-Rényi random graphs, on the stochastic block model, and on random regular graphs. Moreover, a heterogeneous population of agents is studied.
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