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Competing contact processes in the Watts-Strogatz network

Physics and Society 2016-06-07 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We investigate two competing contact processes on a set of Watts--Strogatz networks with the clustering coefficient tuned by rewiring. The base for network construction is one-dimensional chain of NN sites, where each site ii is directly linked to nodes labelled as i±1i\pm 1 and i±2i\pm 2. So initially, each node has the same degree ki=4k_i=4. The periodic boundary conditions are assumed as well. For each node ii the links to sites i+1i+1 and i+2i+2 are rewired to two randomly selected nodes so far not-connected to node ii. An increase of the rewiring probability qq influences the nodes degree distribution and the network clusterization coefficient C\mathcal{C}. For given values of rewiring probability qq the set N(q)={N1,N2,,NM}\mathcal{N}(q)=\{\mathcal{N}_1, \mathcal{N}_2, \cdots, \mathcal{N}_M \} of MM networks is generated. The network's nodes are decorated with spin-like variables si{S,D}s_i\in\{S,D\}. During simulation each SS node having a DD-site in its neighbourhood converts this neighbour from DD to SS state. Conversely, a node in DD state having at least one neighbour also in state DD-state converts all nearest-neighbours of this pair into DD-state. The latter is realized with probability pp. We plot the dependence of the nodes SS final density nSTn_S^T on initial nodes SS fraction nS0n_S^0. Then, we construct the surface of the unstable fixed points in (C,p,nS0)(\mathcal{C}, p, n_S^0) space. The system evolves more often toward nST=1n_S^T=1 for (C,p,nS0)(\mathcal{C}, p, n_S^0) points situated above this surface while starting simulation with (C,p,nS0)(\mathcal{C}, p, n_S^0) parameters situated below this surface leads system to nST=0n_S^T=0. The points on this surface correspond to such value of initial fraction nSn_S^* of SS nodes (for fixed values C\mathcal{C} and pp) for which their final density is nST=12n_S^T=\frac{1}{2}.

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@article{arxiv.1411.4901,
  title  = {Competing contact processes in the Watts-Strogatz network},
  author = {Marcin Rybak and Krzysztof Malarz and Krzysztof Kułakowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.4901},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

5 pages, 5 figures

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