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Reaching Consensus via Polynomial Stochastic Operators: A General Study

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In this paper, we consider a nonlinear protocol for a structured time-varying synchronous multi-agent system in which an opinion sharing dynamics is presented by non-autonomous polynomial stochastic operators associated with high-order stochastic hyper-matrices. We show that the proposed nonlinear protocol generates the Krause mean process. We provide a criterion to establish a consensus in the multi-agent system under the proposed nonlinear protocol.

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This work has been done under the MOHE grant FRGS14-141-0382. The first Author (M.S.) is grateful to the Junior Associate scheme of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. He is also indebted to Professor Hideaki Matsunaga for his kind hospitality during the conference ICDEA2016, Osaka, Japan.

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Saburov, M., Saburov, K. (2017). Reaching Consensus via Polynomial Stochastic Operators: A General Study. In: Elaydi, S., Hamaya, Y., Matsunaga, H., Pötzsche, C. (eds) Advances in Difference Equations and Discrete Dynamical Systems. ICDEA 2016. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 212. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6409-8_14

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