3 papers
physics.soc-ph2025
Breaking coexistence: Zealotry vs. nonlinear social impact
Christopher R. Kitching, LucÃa S. Ramirez, Maxi San Miguel +1
We study how zealotry and nonlinear social impact affect consensus formation in the nonlinear voter model, evolutionary games, and the partisan voter model. In all three models, co…
physics.soc-ph2024
q-deformed evolutionary dynamics in simple matrix games
Christopher R. Kitching, Tobias Galla
We consider evolutionary games in which the agent selected for update compares their payoff to q neighbours, rather than a single neighbour as in standard evolutionary game theory.…
cond-mat.stat-mech2024
Estimating transmission noise on networks from stationary local order
Christopher R. Kitching, Henri Kauhanen, Jordan Abbott +3
In this paper we study networks of nodes characterised by binary traits that change both endogenously and through nearest-neighbour interaction. Our analytical results show that th…