Balance theory has advanced with interdisciplinary contributions from social science, physical science, engineering, and mathematics. The common focus of attention is social networks in which every individual has either a positive or negative, cognitive or emotional, appraisal of every other individual. The current frontier of work on balance theory is a hunt for a dynamical model that predicts the temporal evolution of any such appraisal network to a particular structure in the complete set of balanced networks allowed by the theory. Finding such a model has proved to be a difficult problem. In this article, we contribute a parsimonious solution of the problem that explicates the conditions under which a network will evolve either to a set of mutually antagonistic cliques or to an asymmetric structure that allows agreement, cooperation, and compromise among cliques.

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积极传染与广义平衡的宏观结构

平衡理论随着社会科学、物理科学、工程和数学的跨学科贡献而发展。共同关注的焦点是社交网络，其中每个人对其他每个人都有积极或消极、认知或情感的评价。平衡理论的当前工作前沿是寻找一种动态模型，该模型可以预测任何此类评估网络在理论允许的完整平衡网络集中的特定结构的时间演变。事实证明，找到这样一个模型是一个难题。在这篇文章中，我们对这个问题提出了一个简洁的解决方案，它解释了一个网络将在何种条件下演变为一组相互对抗的集团或一个允许协议、合作、