Scale-free networks emerging from weighted random graphs

Tomer Kalisky, Sameet Sreenivasan, Lidia A. Braunstein, Sergey V. Buldyrev, Shlomo Havlin, H. Eugene Stanley

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Abstract

We study Erdös-Rényi random graphs with random weights associated with each link. We generate a "supernode network" by merging all nodes connected by links having weights below the percolation threshold (percolation clusters) into a single node. We show that this network is scale-free, i.e., the degree distribution is P(k)∼ k-λ with λ=2.5. Our results imply that the minimum spanning tree in random graphs is composed of percolation clusters, which are interconnected by a set of links that create a scale-free tree with λ=2.5. We suggest that optimization causes the percolation threshold to emerge spontaneously, thus creating naturally a scale-free supernode network. We discuss the possibility that this phenomenon is related to the evolution of several real world scale-free networks.

Original languageEnglish
Article number025103
JournalPhysical Review E
Volume73
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2006

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