eprintid: 4959
rev_number: 21
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datestamp: 2016-01-15 02:07:53
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type: monograph
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item_issues_count: 2
creators_name: Rinaldi, S.
creators_id: 7286
title: Love Dynamics: The Case of Linear Couples
ispublished: pub
internal_subjects: iis_mod
internal_subjects: iis_sys
divisions: prog_dyn
abstract: This paper proposes a minimal model composed of two ordinary differential equations to describe the dynamics of love between two individuals. The equations take into account three mechanisms of love growth and decay: the pleasure of being loved (return), the reaction to the partner's appeal (instinct), and the forgetting processes (oblivion). Under suitable assumptions on the behavior of the individuals, the model turns out to be a positive linear system enjoying, as such, a number of remarkable properties, which are in agreement with common wisdom on the argument. These properties are used to explore the consequences that individual behavior can have on the population structure. The main result along this line is that individual appeal is the driving force that creates order in the population. Possible extensions of this theory of linear love dynamics are briefly discussed.
date: 1996-06
date_type: published
publisher: WP-96-068
iiasapubid: WP-96-068
price: 10
creators_browse_id: 253
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: working_paper
place_of_pub: IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
pages: 26
coversheets_dirty: FALSE
fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/book
citation:   Rinaldi, S. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/253.html>  (1996).  Love Dynamics: The Case of Linear Couples.   IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-96-068     
document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4959/1/WP-96-068.pdf