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Slower is faster: Reduction of consensus times through social inertia in the Voter Model

Published on Nov 21, 20072831 Views

In this paper, we investigate the role of heterogeneity added to the Voter Model. In our model, voters are equipped with an individual inertia to change opinion, which depends on the persistence tim