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LIT-1128: Nonequilibrium phase transition in the coevolution of networks and opinions

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StatusActive — read 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1385) in full, from arXiv's own copy (v3); worth reading as perhaps the simplest model in which opinions and ties adapt to each other, rewiring to a like-minded agent with probability φ or copying a neighbour otherwise, which always freezes into like-minded components and has a continuous transition at φ_c ≈ 0.458 (k̄ = 4, γ = 10) between one giant community and only small ones, outside the percolation class. Read it knowing that it is simulation only (N ≤ 3200), that its opinions are unweighted labels with no influence or authority, that its dynamics is absorbing, and that the summary filed with it was wrong: no mixed groups form.
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Tagsnetwork-science, complex-systems
Cited as “paper” byNOTE-1385 — Holme and Newman — Coevolution of networks and opinions

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Holme, P. & Newman, M. E. J. (2006). Physical Review E 74(5):056108. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.74.056108.

Read in full on 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1385).

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A15 of the exchange of 2026-10-16: a baseline for the coupled meaning–influence model (QUESTION-117).

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