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Let $G$ be an influence profile and $\O$ be an opinion profile, such that, for some $p\in \Atoms $, for all $i,j\in\N$: if $i\in R_p(j)$, then $O_i_{p}\neq O_j{p}$. Then the UP does not converge.  \end{lemma}  Recall that a graph is properly two-colored colored  if no node has a successor of the same color. The above result can be reformulated as follows: if for some $p\in\Atoms$, $\O$ properly colors $G_p$, then $\O$ does not converge. In fact, it is easy to see that in such a case, all agents will change their opinion on $p$ at every step, entering an oscillation of size $2$. Note that this limit case of opinion distribution is yet another special case of DeGroot processes, another example within the intersection between the two frameworks of propositional opinion diffusion and DeGroot. The possibility of this extreme distribution of opinions relies on the graph $G_p$ being $2$-colorable, which is equivalent to $G_p$ not containing any cycle of odd length. However, non $2$-colorability is not a sufficient condition for convergence of UPs in general: a simple cycle of three agents, for instance, is not $2$-colorable but does not guarantee convergence either  (as illustrated above with the convergence conditions  for BDPs). Nevertheless, there is a class of influence profiles for which being $2$-colorable is a necessary condition of non-convergence of UPs, the \emph{symmetric} influence profiles: ones:  \begin{lemma}  Let $\G$ be a symmetric (and (serial and  non-necessarily functional) influence profile. All opinion profiles $\O$ $\O$,  converge in UPs  on $\G$under UP  iff: \begin{itemize}  \item[] For all $p\in\Atoms$, $G_p$ is not $2$-colorable $2$-colorable.  \end{lemma}  \begin{proof}  Let $p\in\Atoms$ and $G_p$ be not $2$-colorable. This means that for some connected set of nodes $S\subseteq\N$ with diameter $k$ in $G_p$, there is a cycle of length $c$ for $c$ odd. Let $O$ be an arbitrary opinion profile. Since $k$ is odd, there exist $i,j\in S$ such that $j\in R_p(i)$ and $O_i(p)=O_j(p).$ By definition of UP, this implies that $O_i(p)$ is stable, and that all agents with distance $\seq k$ will be stable after at most $k$ steps. The lemma above gives the other direction.   \end{proof}  \begin{theorem}  Let $\G$ be a symmetric (and (serial and  non-necessarily functional) influence profile and $\O$ be an opinion profile. The UP converges for $\O$ on $\G$ iff:  \begin{itemize}  \item[] For all $p\in\Atoms$, $G_p$ is not $2$-colorable, or