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Emergent cooperative behavior in transient compartments
Jeferson J. Arenzon, Luca Peliti
We introduce a minimal model of multilevel selection on structured populations, considering the interplay between game theory and population dynamics. Through a bottleneck process,…
Energy-lowering and constant-energy spin flips: Emergence of the percolating cluster in the kinetic Ising model
Amanda de Azevedo-Lopes, Renan A. L. Almeida, Paulo Murilo C. de Oliveira +1
After a sudden quench from the disordered high-temperature phase to a final temperature below the critical point , the non-conserved order parameter dyn…
Curvature-driven growth and interfacial noise in the voter model with self-induced zealots
Luís Carlos F. Latoski, W. G. Dantas, Jeferson J. Arenzon
We introduce a variant of the voter model in which agents may have different degrees of confidence on their opinions. Those with low confidence are normal voters whose state can ch…
A branching random-walk model of disease outbreaks and the percolation backbone
Paulo Murilo C. de Oliveira, Daniel A. Stariolo, Jeferson J. Arenzon
The size and shape of the region affected by an outbreak is relevant to understand the dynamics of a disease and help to organize future actions to mitigate similar events. A simpl…
Maximal Diversity and Zipf's Law
Onofrio Mazzarisi, Amanda de Azevedo-Lopes, Jeferson J. Arenzon +1
Zipf's law describes the empirical size distribution of the components of many systems in natural and social sciences and humanities. We show, by solving a statistical model, that…
Skepticism and rumor spreading: the role of spatial correlations
Marco Antonio Amaral, W. G. Dantas, Jeferson J. Arenzon
Critical thinking and skepticism are fundamental mechanisms that one may use to prevent the spreading of rumors, fake-news and misinformation. We consider a simple model in which a…