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Universality class of explosive percolation in Barab\'{a}si-Albert networks

Statistical Mechanics 2019-12-10 v1

Abstract

In this work, we study explosive percolation (EP) in Barab\'{a}si-Albert (BA) network, in which nodes are born with degree k=mk=m, for both product rule (PR) and sum rule (SR) of the Achlioptas process. For m=1m=1 we find that the critical point tc=1t_c=1 which is the maximum possible value of the relative link density tt; Hence we cannot have access to the other phase like percolation in one dimension. However, for m>1m>1 we find that tct_c decreases with increasing mm and the critical exponents ν,α,β\nu, \alpha, \beta and γ\gamma for m>1m>1 are found to be independent not only of the value of mm but also of PR and SR. It implies that they all belong to the same universality class like EP in the Erd\"{o}s-R\'{e}nyi network. Besides, the critical exponents obey the Rushbrooke inequality in the form α+2β+γ=2+ϵ\alpha+2\beta+\gamma=2+\epsilon with 0<ϵ<<10<\epsilon<<1.

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@article{arxiv.1807.08739,
  title  = {Universality class of explosive percolation in Barab\'{a}si-Albert networks},
  author = {M. Habib-E-Islam and M. K. Hassan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.08739},
  year   = {2019}
}

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8 pages, 7 captioned figures