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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 mNm\in \mathbb{N} and 1/2<p<11/2 < p < 1. With probability pp a vertex is added along with mm edges, randomly chosen proportional to vertex degrees. With probability 1p1 - p, the oldest vertex still holding its original mm edges loses those edges. It is shown that the degree of any vertex either is zero or follows a geometric distribution. If pp is above a certain threshold, this leads to a power law for the degree sequence, while a smaller pp gives exponential tails. It is also shown that the graph contains a unique giant component whp if and only if m2m\geq 2.

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@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