Contagion

Influential groups for seeding and sustaining nonlinear contagion in heterogeneous hypergraphs

Several biological and social contagion phenomena, such as superspreading events or social reinforcement, are the results of multi-body interactions, for which hypergraphs offer a natural mathematical description. In this paper, we develop a novel …

Social contagion models on hypergraphs

Here we study the dynamics of social contagion on hypergraphs. We develop an analytical framework and provide numerical results for arbitrary hypergraphs, which we also support with Monte Carlo simulations. We show that the model has a vast parameter space, with first- and second-order transitions, bistability, and hysteresis.