title: Analytical approach to the model of scientific revolutions.
abstract: The model of scientific paradigms spreading throughout a community of agents with memory is analyzed using the master equation. The case of two competing ideas is considered for various networks of interactions, including agents placed at Erdős-Rényi graphs or complete graphs. The pace of adopting a new idea by the community is analyzed, along with the distribution of periods after which a new idea replaces the old one. The approach is extended for the chain topology to the more general case when more than two ideas compete. Our analytical results agree with the numerical simulations.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Physics, Center of Excellence for Complex Systems Research, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, PL-00-662 Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Paweł
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kondratiuk
authors.forename: Grzegorz
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Siudem
authors.forename: Janusz A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Hołyst
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D005544:Forecasting; D005716:Game Theory; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012586:Science / Q000639:trends*