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arxiv: 1010.1953 · v2 · pith:44L73OBOnew · submitted 2010-10-10 · ⚛️ physics.soc-ph · cs.SI

Passive Supporters of Terrorism and Phase Transitions

classification ⚛️ physics.soc-ph cs.SI
keywords passivephaseprocessesspreadsupporterstransitionscalculatecontagion
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We discuss some social contagion processes to describe the formation and spread of radical opinions. The dynamics of opinion spread involves local threshold processes as well as mean field effects. We calculate and observe phase transitions in the dynamical variables resulting in a rapidly increasing number of passive supporters. This strongly indicates that military solutions are inappropriate.

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