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A symmetry breaking transition in the edge/triangle network model

Combinatorics 2017-03-16 v1 Statistical Mechanics Social and Information Networks Probability

Abstract

Our general subject is the emergence of phases, and phase transitions, in large networks subjected to a few variable constraints. Our main result is the analysis, in the model using edge and triangle subdensities for constraints, of a sharp transition between two phases with different symmetries, analogous to the transition between a fluid and a crystalline solid.

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@article{arxiv.1604.07929,
  title  = {A symmetry breaking transition in the edge/triangle network model},
  author = {Charles Radin and Kui Ren and Lorenzo Sadun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.07929},
  year   = {2017}
}
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