title: Social contagions on interdependent lattice networks.
abstract: Although an increasing amount of research is being done on the dynamical processes on interdependent spatial networks, knowledge of how interdependent spatial networks influence the dynamics of social contagion in them is sparse. Here we present a novel non-Markovian social contagion model on interdependent spatial networks composed of two identical two-dimensional lattices. We compare the dynamics of social contagion on networks with different fractions of dependency links and find that the density of final recovered nodes increases as the number of dependency links is increased. We use a finite-size analysis method to identify the type of phase transition in the giant connected components (GCC) of the final adopted nodes and find that as we increase the fraction of dependency links, the phase transition switches from second-order to first-order. In strong interdependent spatial networks with abundant dependency links, increasing the fraction of initial adopted nodes can induce the switch from a first-order to second-order phase transition associated with social contagion dynamics. In networks with a small number of dependency links, the phase transition remains second-order. In addition, both the second-order and first-order phase transition points can be decreased by increasing the fraction of dependency links or the number of initially-adopted nodes.
authors.affiliation: School of Sciences, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, 710054, China.
authors.forename: Panpan
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Shu
authors.affiliation: Web Sciences Center, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an, 710071, China.
authors.forename: Pengcheng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: Web Sciences Center, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China.|Big data research center, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China.|Center for Polymer Studies and Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, USA.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Center for Polymer Studies and Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, USA.
authors.forename: H Eugene
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Stanley
mesh_terms: D008390:Markov Chains; D044367:Phase Transition; D011156:Population Density; D060756:Social Networking; D062211:Spatio-Temporal Analysis; D013997:Time Factors