Scale-free properties of weighted random graphs: Minimum Spanning trees and percolation

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. In our approach, nodes connected by links having weights below the percolation threshold form clusters, and each cluster merges into a single node, thus generating a new "clusters network". We show that this network is scale-free with λ = 2.5. Furthermore, we show that optimization causes the percolation threshold to emerge spontaneously, thus creating naturally a scale-free "clusters network". This phenomenon may be related to the evolution of several real world scale-free networks. Our results imply that: (i) the minimum spanning tree (MST) 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 (ii) the optimal path may be partitioned into segments that follow the percolation clusters, and the lengths of these segments grow exponentially with the number of clusters that are crossed (iii) the optimal path in scale-free networks with λ < 3 scales as lopt ∼ logN, and the weights along the optimal path decay exponentially with their rank.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSCIENCE OF COMPLEX NETWORKS
Subtitle of host publicationFrom Biology to the Internet and WWW, CNET 2004
Pages79-89
Number of pages11
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Jun 2005
EventSCIENCE OF COMPLEX NETWORKS: From Biology to the Internet and WWW, CNET 2004 - Aveiro, Portugal
Duration: 29 Aug 20042 Sep 2004

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume776
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

ConferenceSCIENCE OF COMPLEX NETWORKS: From Biology to the Internet and WWW, CNET 2004
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityAveiro
Period29/08/042/09/04

Keywords

  • Minimum spanning tree
  • Optimization
  • Percolation
  • Scale-free

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