Hypergraphs and political structures

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العنوان: Hypergraphs and political structures
المؤلفون: Volic, Ismar, Wang, Zixu
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics - Physics and Society, 91C99, 91F10
الوصف: Building on previous work, this paper extends the modeling of political structures from simplicial complexes to hypergraphs. This allows the analysis of more complex political dynamics where agents who are willing to form coalitions contain subsets that would not necessarily form coalitions themselves. We extend topological constructions such as wedge, cone, and collapse from simplicial complexes to hypergraphs and use them to study mergers, mediators, and power delegation in political structures. Concepts such as agent viability and system stability are generalized to the hypergraph context, alongside the introduction of the notion of local viability. Additionally, we use embedded homology of hypergraphs to analyze power concentration within political systems. Along the way, we introduce some new notions within the hypergraph framework that are of independent interest.
Comment: 14 pages
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14638
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2404.14638
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv