Krause Mean Processes Generated by Doubly Stochastic Hyper-Matrices with Positive Influences
摘要
The notion of consensus through repeated averaging was first introduced by DeGroot in the context of synchronous environments. Since then, consensus has been extensively studied in a diverse range of fields, including biology, physics, and control engineering. The Krause mean process is a generalized model of opinion dynamics among many agents that represents opinions as vectors. In this paper, we investigate an opinion sharing dynamics in the multi-agent system by means of Krause mean processes which are generated by doubly stochastic hyper-matrices. This is arguably a feasible generalization of the classical models such as DeGroot’s model as well as Chatterjee-Seneta’s model from square stochastic matrices to higher-order stochastic hyper-matrices. We then demonstrate how consensus can be achieved in the multi-agent system when doubly stochastic hyper-matrices have positive influences. This is a novel generalization of the Perron-Frobenius theorem from doubly stochastic square matrices to doubly stochastic hyper-matrices with positive influences.