Core size and densification in preferential attachment networks

Chen Avin, Zvi Lotker, Yinon Nahum, David Peleg

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Abstract

Consider a preferential attachment model for network evolution that allows both node and edge arrival events: at time t, with probability pt a new node arrives and a new edge is added between the new node and an existing node, and with probability 1 - pt a new edge is added between two existing nodes. In both cases existing nodes are chosen at random according to preferential attachment, i.e., with probability proportional to their degree. For δ ∈ (0, 1), the δ-founders of the network at time t is the minimal set of the first nodes to enter the network (i.e., founders) guaranteeing that the sum of degrees of nodes in the set is at least a δ fraction of the number of edges in the graph at time t. We show that for the common model where pt is constant, i.e., when pt = p for every t and the network is sparse with linear number of edges, the size of the δ-founders set is concentrated around δ2/pnt, and thus is linear in nt, the number of nodes at time t.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAutomata, Languages, and Programming - 42nd International Colloquium, ICALP 2015, Proceedings
EditorsNaoki Kobayashi, Bettina Speckmann, Kazuo Iwama, Magnus M. Halldorsson
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages492-503
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783662476659
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event42nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2015 - Kyoto, Japan
Duration: 6 Jul 201510 Jul 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9135
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference42nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2015
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityKyoto
Period6/07/1510/07/15

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015.

Funding

Supported in part by the Israel Science Foundation (grant 1549/13).

FundersFunder number
Israel Science Foundation
Israel Science Foundation1549/13

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