In the present paper, we study a class of nonlinear integro-differential equations of a kinetic type describing the dynamics of opinion for two types of societies: conformist ( σ = 1 ) and anti-conformist ( σ = - 1 ). The essential role is played by the symmetric nature of interactions. The class may be related to the mesoscopic scale of description. This means that we are going to statistically describe an individual state of an agent of the system. We show that the corresponding equations result at the macroscopic scale in two different pictures: anti-diffusive ( σ = 1 ) and diffusive ( σ = - 1 ). We provide a rigorous result on the convergence. The result captures the macroscopic behavior resulting from the mesoscopic one. In numerical examples, we observe both unipolar and bipolar behavior known in political sciences.
Initial problems for nonlinear hyperbolic functional differential systems are considered. Classical solutions are approximated by solutions of suitable quasilinear systems of difference functional equations. The numerical methods used are difference schemes which are implicit with respect to the time variable. Theorems on convergence of difference schemes and error estimates of approximate solutions are presented. The proof of the stability is based on a comparison technique with nonlinear estimates of the Perron type. Numerical examples are given.
A theorem on the existence of weak solutions of the Cauchy problem for first order functional differential equations defined on the Haar pyramid is proved. The initial problem is transformed into a system of functional integral equations for the unknown function and for its partial derivatives with respect to spatial variables. The method of bicharacteristics and integral inequalities are applied. Differential equations with deviated variables and differential integral equations can be obtained from the general theory by specializing given operators. 1. Introduction. For any metric spaces X and Y we denote by C(X, Y) the class of all continuous functions from X into Y. We will use vectorial inequalities with the understanding that the same inequalities hold between their corresponding components.
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