English
Related papers

Related papers: Inward and Outward Node Accessibility in Complex N…

200 papers

In this paper we study the dynamics of nonlinear random walks. While typical random walks on networks consist of standard Markov chains whose static transition probabilities dictate the flow of random walkers through the network, nonlinear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-02-25 Per Sebastian Skardal , Sabina Adhikari

Most social, technological and biological networks are embedded in a finite dimensional space, and the distance between two nodes influences the likelihood that they link to each other. Indeed, in social systems, the chance that two…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-27 Paul Balister , Chaoming Song , Oliver Riordan , Bela Bollobas , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

When discussing urban life, pedestrian accessibility to all main services is crucial for fostering social interactions, promoting healthy lifestyles, and reducing pollution. This is especially relevant in coherent urban agglomerations like…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-10 Adamo Cerioli , Barbara Caselli , Lea Jeanne Marinelli , Alessandro Vezzani , Raffaella Burioni

Designing optimal structure favorable to diffusion and effectively controlling the trapping process are crucial in the study of trapping problem---random walks with a single trap. In this paper, we study the trapping problem occurring on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-12 Yihang Yang , Zhongzhi Zhang

Complex numbers define the relationship between entities in many situations. A canonical example would be the off-diagonal terms in a Hamiltonian matrix in quantum physics. Recent years have seen an increasing interest to extend the tools…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Yu Tian , Renaud Lambiotte

Hypergraphs have been a recent focus of study in mathematical data science as a tool to understand complex networks with high-order connections. One question of particular relevance is how to leverage information carried in hypergraph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Enzo Battistella , Sean English , Robert Green , Cliff Joslyn , Evgeniya Lagoda , Van Magnan , Audun Myers , Evan D. Nash , Michael Robinson

The $k$-th power of the adjacency matrix of a simple undirected graph represents the number of walks with length $k$ between pairs of nodes. As a walk where no node repeats, a path is a walk where each node is only visited once. The set of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Ivan Jokić , Piet Van Mieghem

Random walks over directed graphs are used to model activities in many domains, such as social networks, influence propagation, and Bayesian graphical models. They are often used to compute the importance or centrality of individual nodes…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Daniel Boley , Alejandro Buendia , Golshan Golnari

We investigate unimodular random networks. Our motivations include their characterization via reversibility of an associated random walk and their similarities to unimodular quasi-transitive graphs. We extend various theorems concerning…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-05-20 David Aldous , Russell Lyons

Random walks play an important role in probing the structure of complex networks. On traditional networks, they can be used to extract community structure, understand node centrality, perform link prediction, or capture the similarity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-13 Shazia'Ayn Babul , Yu Tian , Renaud Lambiotte

Predicting how the brain can be driven to specific states by means of internal or external control requires a fundamental understanding of the relationship between neural connectivity and activity. Network control theory is a powerful tool…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-08-12 Teresa M. Karrer , Jason Z. Kim , Jennifer Stiso , Ari E. Kahn , Fabio Pasqualetti , Ute Habel , Danielle S. Bassett

Graphlets are induced subgraph patterns that are crucial to the understanding of the structure and function of a large network. A lot of efforts have been devoted to calculating graphlet statistics where random walk based approaches are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Simiao Jiao , Zihui Xue , Xiaowei Chen , Yuedong Xu

We study the growth of networks from a set of isolated ground nodes by the addition of one new node per time step and also of a fixed number of directed edges leading from the new node to randomly selected nodes already in the network. A…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-10 Valmir C. Barbosa

In recent years, the concepts of ``diversity'' and ``inclusion'' have attracted considerable attention across a range of fields, encompassing both social and biological disciplines. To fully understand these concepts, it is critical to not…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Keita Kinjo

In the study of dynamical processes on networks, there has been intense focus on network structure -- i.e., the arrangement of edges and their associated weights -- but the effects of the temporal patterns of edges remains poorly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-16 Till Hoffmann , Mason A. Porter , Renaud Lambiotte

We propose a dynamical process for network evolution, aiming at explaining the emergence of the small world phenomenon, i.e., the statistical observation that any pair of individuals are linked by a short chain of acquaintances computable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-03-04 Augustin Chaintreau , Pierre Fraigniaud , Emmanuelle Lebhar

Understanding how transient dynamics unfold in response to localized inputs is central to predicting and controlling signal propagation in network systems, including neural processing, epidemic intervention, and power-grid resilience.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-23 Xiaoge Bao , Wei P. Dai , Jan Nagler , Wei Lin

We pose a new and intriguing question motivated by distributed computing regarding random walks on graphs: How long does it take for several independent random walks, starting from the same vertex, to cover an entire graph? We study the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-11-20 Noga Alon , Chen Avin , Michal Koucky , Gady Kozma , Zvi Lotker , Mark R. Tuttle

Connectivity is one of the most fundamental properties of wireless multi-hop networks. A network is said to be connected if there is a path between any pair of nodes. A convenient way to study the connectivity of a random network is by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-08 Guoqiang Mao , Brian DO Anderson

Graph drawings are useful tools for exploring the structure and dynamics of data that can be represented by pair-wise relationships among a set of objects. Typical real-world social, biological or technological networks exhibit high…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Christian Schulz