Potts-like model for ghetto formation in multi-cultural societies

TL;DR

This paper models the formation of ethnic ghettos in multi-cultural societies using a Potts-like model, exploring how social temperature influences segregation patterns and their prevention.

Contribution

It introduces a Potts-like model for ethnic group interactions and analyzes how social temperature affects ghetto formation and prevention.

Findings

Higher social temperature reduces ghetto formation

Model reproduces Schelling's segregation phenomena

Potential strategies for social integration

Abstract

In a Potts-like model of $Q$ ethnic groups, we follow Schelling (1971) and Meyer-Ortmanns (2003) and simulate the formation of ethnic ghettos as well as their prevention by an increasing social temperature.