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creators_name: Mobilia, M.
creators_name: Petersen, Alexander M.
creators_name: Redner, S.
creators_id: 
creators_id: alexander.petersen@imtlucca.it
creators_id: 
title: On the role of zealotry in the voter model
ispublished: pub
subjects: JA
subjects: QC
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: none
keywords:     interacting agent models,

    probability theory,

    scaling in socio-economic systems,

abstract: We study the voter model with a finite density of zealots—voters that never change opinion. For equal numbers of zealots of each species, the distribution of magnetization (opinions) is Gaussian in the mean-field limit, as well as in one and two dimensions, with a width that is proportional to 1/√Z , where Z is the number of zealots, independent of the total number of voters. Thus just a few zealots can prevent consensus or even the formation of a robust majority.
date: 2007
date_type: published
publication: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
volume: 2007
number: 08
publisher: IOPscience
pagerange: P08029
id_number: 10.1088/1742-5468/2007/08/P08029
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1742-5468
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/2007/08/P08029
citation:   Mobilia, M. and Petersen, Alexander M. and Redner, S.  On the role of zealotry in the voter model.  Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2007 (08).  P08029.  ISSN 1742-5468      (2007)