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Fixed points of Personalized PageRank centrality: From irreducible to reducible networks

Social and Information Networks 2025-07-28 v1

Abstract

In this paper we analyze the PageRank of a complex network as a function of its personalization vector. By using this approach, a complete characterization of the existence and uniqueness of fixed points of PageRank of a graph is given in terms of the number and nature of its strongly connected components. The method presented includes the use of a feedback-PageRank in order to compute exactly the fixed points following the classic Power's Method in terms of the (left-hand) Perron vector of each strongly connected components.

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@article{arxiv.2507.18652,
  title  = {Fixed points of Personalized PageRank centrality: From irreducible to reducible networks},
  author = {David Aleja and Julio Flores and Eva Primo and Daniel Rodríguez and Miguel Romance},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.18652},
  year   = {2025}
}

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28 pages, 4 figures