Wikipedia mining of hidden links between political leaders

Klaus M. Frahm, Katia Jaffrès-Runser and Dima L. Shepelyansky ()
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Klaus M. Frahm: Laboratoire de Physique Théorique du CNRS, IRSAMC, Université de Toulouse, CNRS
Katia Jaffrès-Runser: Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, Université de Toulouse
Dima L. Shepelyansky: Laboratoire de Physique Théorique du CNRS, IRSAMC, Université de Toulouse, CNRS

The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 2016, vol. 89, issue 12, 1-21

Abstract: Abstract We describe a new method of reduced Google matrix which allows to establish direct and hidden links between a subset of nodes of a large directed network. This approach uses parallels with quantum scattering theory, developed for processes in nuclear and mesoscopic physics and quantum chaos. The method is applied to the Wikipedia networks in different language editions analyzing several groups of political leaders of USA, UK, Germany, France, Russia and G20. We demonstrate that this approach allows to recover reliably direct and hidden links among political leaders. We argue that the reduced Google matrix method can form the mathematical basis for studies in social and political sciences analyzing Leader-Members eXchange (LMX).

Keywords: Statistical; and; Nonlinear; Physics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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