Dynamics of Vacillating Voters
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⚛️ physics.soc-ph
cond-mat.stat-mechphysics.gen-ph
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dimensionvacillatingvotervotersanti-coarseningarisesbiaschanges
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We introduce the vacillating voter model in which each voter consults two neighbors to decide its state, and changes opinion if it disagrees with either neighbor. This irresolution leads to a global bias toward zero magnetization. In spatial dimension d>1, anti-coarsening arises in which the linear dimension L of minority domains grows as t^{1/(d+1)}. One consequence is that the time to reach consensus scales exponentially with the number of voters.
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