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    "abstract": "The dynamical process of opinion formation within a model using a local\nmajority opinion updating rule is studied numerically in networks with the\nsmall-world geometrical property. The network is one in which shortcuts are\nadded to randomly chosen pairs of nodes in an underlying regular lattice. The\npresence of a small number of shortcuts is found to shorten the time to reach a\nconsensus significantly. The effects of having shortcuts in a lattice of fixed\nspatial dimension are shown to be analogous to that of increasing the spatial\ndimension in regular lattices. The shortening of the consensus time is shown to\nbe related to the shortening of the mean shortest path as shortcuts are added.\nResults can also be translated into that of the dynamics of a spin system in a\nsmall-world network.",
    "arxiv_id": "physics/0510065",
    "authors": [
      "Ping-Ping Li",
      "Da-Fang Zheng",
      "P. M. Hui"
    ],
    "categories": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevE.73.056128",
    "title": "Dynamics of opinion formation in a small-world network",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0510065"
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