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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Phys.

Sec. Social Physics

Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fphy.2025.1556949

This article is part of the Research Topic Exploring Human Interactions through Sociophysics: Dynamics of Opinion Formation View all articles

Social dynamics and stability of human society

Provisionally accepted
  • Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Shanghai, China

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

    Sociophysics involves the use of physical models to describe human society. This makes it possible to simplify the construction of social models and use concepts, equations, and consequences from them, already well-known in physics. In this work, a system of equations is proposed that describes the dynamics of human society in an N-dimensional social space, introduced on the basis of a widely used survey method. The proposed system of equations links such parameters as social density, velocity of social flows, gradient of social pressure, and social potential, as well as their derivatives with respect to social coordinates and time. The constructed system of equations is similar to multidimensional Navier-Stokes equations for a fluid with variable density, viscosity, and non-stationary temperature distribution. This excludes the possibility of an analytical solution of the system in the general case and leaves a door open only for numerical simulations with the prediction of future behavior at short time intervals in a common way in meteorology.

    Keywords: Social mechanics, social dynamics, Social forces, Navier-Stokes equations, social interaction

    Received: 07 Jan 2025; Accepted: 26 Mar 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Semenok. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Dmitrii Semenok, Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Shanghai, China

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