Deletion of oldest edges in a preferential attachment graph
Combinatorics
2016-11-18 v2
Abstract
We consider a variation on the Barab\'asi-Albert random graph process with fixed parameters and . With probability a vertex is added along with edges, randomly chosen proportional to vertex degrees. With probability , the oldest vertex still holding its original edges loses those edges. It is shown that the degree of any vertex either is zero or follows a geometric distribution. If is above a certain threshold, this leads to a power law for the degree sequence, while a smaller gives exponential tails. It is also shown that the graph contains a unique giant component whp if and only if .
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1610.04588,
title = {Deletion of oldest edges in a preferential attachment graph},
author = {Tony Johansson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.04588},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
38 pages. Slightly improved results