Reducing Frustration in Spin Systems: Social Balance as an XOR-SAT problem
Reducing Frustration in Spin Systems: Social Balance as an XOR-SAT problem
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10.1103/physreve.75.026106
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2006-08
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F. Radicchi;Daniele Vilone;Sooeyon Yoon;H. Meyer-Ortmanns
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F. Radicchi;Daniele Vilone;Sooeyon Yoon;H. Meyer-Ortmanns
Reduction of frustration was the driving force in an approach to social balance as it was recently considered by Antal et al. [ T. Antal, P. L. Krapivsky, and S. Redner , Phys. Rev. E 72 , 036121 (2005). ]. We generalize their triad dynamics to k -cycle dynamics for arbitrary integer k . We derive the phase structure, determine the stationary solutions and calculate the time it takes to reach a frozen state. The main difference in the phase structure as a function of k is related to k being even or odd. As a second generalization we dilute the all-to-all coupling as considered by Antal et al. to a random network with connection probability w < 1. Interestingly, this model can be mapped onto a k -XOR-SAT problem that is studied in connection with optimization problems in computer science. What is the phase of social balance in our original interpretation is the phase of satisfaction of all clauses without frustration in the satisfiability problem of computer science. Nevertheless, although the ideal solution without frustration always exists in the cases we study, it does not mean that it is ever reached, neither in the society nor in the optimization problem, because the local dynamical updating rules may be such that the ideal state is reached in a time that grows exponentially with the system size. We generalize the random local algorithm usually applied for solving the k -XOR-SAT problem to a p -random local algorithm, including a parameter p , that corresponds to the propensity parameter in the social balance problem. The qualitative effect is a bias towards the optimal solution and a reduction of the needed simulation time. We establish the mapping between the k -cycle dynamics for social balance on diluted networks and the k -XOR-SAT problem solved by a p -random local algorithm.