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We study spatial embeddings of random graphs in which nodes are randomly distributed in geographical space. We let the edge probability between any two nodes to be dependent on the spatial distance between them and demonstrate that this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 Ling Heng Wong , Philippa Pattison , Garry Robins

Extreme events have low occurrence probabilities and display pronounced deviation from their average behaviour, such as earthquakes or power blackouts. Such extreme events occurring on the nodes of a complex network have been extensively…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-02-09 Govind Gandhi , M. S. Santhanam

Random walks on regular bounded degree expander graphs have numerous applications. A key property of these walks is that they converge rapidly to the uniform distribution on the vertices. The recent study of expansion of high dimensional…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Tali Kaufman , David Mass

Graph-structured data arise in wide applications, such as computer vision, bioinformatics, and social networks. Quantifying similarities among graphs is a fundamental problem. In this paper, we develop a framework for computing graph…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-11 Zhen Zhang , Mianzhi Wang , Yijian Xiang , Yan Huang , Arye Nehorai

We propose an approximation for the first return time distribution of random walks on undirected networks. We combine a message-passing solution with a mean-field approximation, to account for the short- and long-term behaviours…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Erik Hormann , Renaud Lambiotte , George T. Cantwell

Recently, Watts and Strogatz introduced the so-called small-world networks in order to describe systems which combine simultaneously properties of regular and of random lattices. In this work we study diffusion processes defined on such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Jespersen , I. M. Sokolov , A. Blumen

We present a new approach of topology biased random walks for undirected networks. We focus on a one parameter family of biases and by using a formal analogy with perturbation theory in quantum mechanics we investigate the features of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-09 Vinko Zlatić , Andrea Gabrielli , Guido Caldarelli

Hypergraphs provide a fundamental framework for representing complex systems involving interactions among three or more entities. As empirical hypergraphs grow in size, characterizing their structural properties becomes increasingly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Kazuki Nakajima , Masanao Kodakari , Masaki Aida

We establish and generalise several bounds for various random walk quantities including the mixing time and the maximum hitting time. Unlike previous analyses, our derivations are based on rather intuitive notions of local expansion…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Thomas Sauerwald , Luca Zanetti

Stimulated by the growing interest in the applications of complex networks framework on time series analysis, we devise a network model in which each of $N$ nodes is associated with a random walk of length $L$. Connectivity between any two…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-03 Harinder Pal , Thomas H. Seligman , Juan V. Escobar

We propose a method for characterizing large complex networks by introducing a new matrix structure, unique for a given network, which encodes structural information; provides useful visualization, even for very large networks; and allows…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-02-28 J. P. Bagrow , E. M. Bollt , J. D. Skufca , D. ben-Avraham

A major achievement in the study of complex networks is the observation that diverse systems, from sub-cellular biology to social networks, exhibit universal topological characteristics. Yet this universality does not naturally translate to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-01-29 Chittaranjan Hens , Uzi Harush , Reuven Cohen , Baruch Barzel

Real-world complex systems exhibit multiple levels of relationships. In many cases they require to be modeled as interconnected multilayer networks, characterizing interactions of several types simultaneously. It is of crucial importance in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-06 Albert Solé-Ribalta , Manlio De Domenico , Sergio Gómez , Alex Arenas

We study the statistical properties of large random networks with specified degree distributions. New techniques are presented for analyzing the structure of social networks. Specifically, we address the question of how many nodes exist at…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Erik Volz

In this study, the concept of small worlds is investigated in the context of large-scale wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. Wireless networks are spatial graphs that are usually much more clustered than random networks and have much…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Ahmed Helmy

We study random walks with stochastic resetting to the initial position on arbitrary networks. We obtain the stationary probability distribution as well as the mean and global first passage times, which allow us to characterize the effect…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-03 Alejandro P. Riascos , Denis Boyer , Paul Herringer , José L. Mateos

We investigate hide-and-seek games on complex networks using a random walk framework. Specifically, we investigate the efficiency of various degree-biased random walk search strategies to locate items that are randomly hidden on a subset of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-02-20 Shubham Pandey , Reimer Kuehn

We study the extreme events taking place on complex networks. The transport on networks is modelled using random walks and we compute the probability for the occurance and recurrence of extreme events on the network. We show that the nodes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-05-05 Vimal Kishore , M. S. Santhanam , R. E. Amritkar

One property of networks that has received comparatively little attention is hierarchy, i.e., the property of having vertices that cluster together in groups, which then join to form groups of groups, and so forth, up through all levels of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-04-12 Aaron Clauset , Cristopher Moore , M. E. J. Newman

The current article shows how concepts from the areas of random walks, Markov chains, complex networks and image analysis can be naturally combined in order to provide a unified and biologically plausible model relating saliency and visual…

Medical Physics · Physics 2007-07-04 Luciano da Fontoura Costa