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A spectrum of complexity uncovers Dunbar's number and other leaps in social structure
Martín Saavedra, Jorge Mira, Alberto P Muñuzuri +1
Social dynamics are shaped by each person's actions, as well as by collective trends that emerge when individuals are brought together. These latter kind of influences escape anyon…
Are Dutch and French languages miscible?
Luís F Seoane, Jorge Mira
We study the stability of the cohabitation of French and Dutch in the Brussels-capital region (Belgium). To this aim, we use available time series of fractions of speakers of monol…
Games in rigged economies
Luís F Seoane
Modern economies evolved from simpler human exchanges into very convoluted systems. Today, a multitude of aspects can be regulated, tampered with, or left to chance; these are econ…
The morphospace of language networks
Luís F Seoane, Ricard Solé
Language can be described as a network of interacting objects with different qualitative properties and complexity. These networks include semantic, syntactic, or phonological leve…
Is the coexistence of Catalan and Spanish possible in Catalonia?
Luís F. Seoane, Xaquín Loredo, Henrique Monteagudo +1
We study the stability of two coexisting languages (Catalan and Spanish) in Catalonia (North-Eastern Spain), a key European region in political and economic terms. Our analysis rel…
Modeling the life and death of competing languages from a physical and mathematical perspective
Luís F Seoane, Jorge Mira
Recent contributions address the problem of language coexistence as that of two species competing to aggregate speakers, thus focusing on the dynamics of linguistic traits across p…
Multiobjective Optimization and Phase Transitions
Luís F. Seoane, Ricard Solé
Many complex systems obey to optimality conditions that are usually not simple. Conflicting traits often interact making a Multi Objective Optimization (MOO) approach necessary. Re…
Phase transitions in Pareto optimal complex networks
Luís F Seoane, Ricard Solé
The organization of interactions in complex systems can be described by networks connecting different units. These graphs are useful representations of the local and global complex…
Ambiguity in language networks
Ricard V. Solé, Luís F. Seoane
Human language defines the most complex outcomes of evolution. The emergence of such an elaborated form of communication allowed humans to create extremely structured societies and…
Analytic solution of a model of language competition with bilingualism and interlinguistic similarity
Victoria Otero-Espinar, Luís F. Seoane, Juan J. Nieto +1
An in-depth analytic study of a model of language dynamics is presented: a model which tackles the problem of the coexistence of two languages within a closed community of speakers…