English
Related papers

Related papers: Topological Phase Transitions in Spatial Networks

200 papers

The topological structure of complex networks has fascinated researchers for several decades, resulting in the discovery of many universal properties and reoccurring characteristics of different kinds of networks. However, much less is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Yvonne Anne Pignolet , Matthieu Roy , Stefan Schmid , Gilles Tredan

The topological structure of complex networks has fascinated researchers for several decades, resulting in the discovery of many universal properties and reoccurring characteristics of different kinds of networks. However, much less is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Yvonne Anne Pignolet , Matthieu Roy , Stefan Schmid , Gilles Tredan

We investigate a network model based on an infinite regular square lattice embedded in the Euclidean plane where the node connection probability is given by the geometrical distance of nodes. We show that the degree distribution in the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-06-23 Matus Medo , Jan Smrek

Time-discrete dynamical systems on a finite state space have been used with great success to model natural and engineered systems such as biological networks, social networks, and engineered control systems. They have the advantage of being…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Alan Veliz-Cuba , Reinhard Laubenbacher

Geometric constraints impact the formation of a broad range of spatial networks, from amino acid chains folding to proteins structures to rearranging particle aggregates. How the network of interactions dynamically self-organizes in such…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2016-10-19 Nora Molkenthin , Marc Timme

Complex dynamical systems are often modeled as networks, with nodes representing dynamical units which interact through the network's links. Gene regulatory networks, responsible for the production of proteins inside a cell, are an example…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-30 Zoran Levnajić

Understanding the dynamics of spatially extended systems represents a challenge in diverse scientific disciplines, ranging from physics and mathematics to the earth and climate sciences or the neurosciences. This challenge has stimulated…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-08-06 S. Bialonski

The human organism is an integrated network where complex physiologic systems, each with its own regulatory mechanisms, continuously interact, and where failure of one system can trigger a breakdown of the entire network. Identifying and…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-03-02 Amir Bashan , Ronny P. Bartsch , Jan W. Kantelhardt , Shlomo Havlin , Plamen Ch. Ivanov

Spatially embedded networks are shaped by a combination of purely topological (space-independent) and space-dependent formation rules. While it is quite easy to artificially generate networks where the relative importance of these two…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-09-10 Franco Ruzzenenti , Francesco Picciolo , Riccardo Basosi , Diego Garlaschelli

The study of dynamical systems defined on complex networks provides a natural framework with which to investigate myriad features of neural dynamics, and has been widely undertaken. Typically, however, networks employed in theoretical…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-02-22 Reuben O'Dea , Jonathan J. Crofts , Marcus Kaiser

In this work we investigate time varying networks with complex dynamics at the nodes. We consider two scenarios of network change in an interval of time: first, we have the case where each link can change with probability pt, i.e. the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-04-14 Ankit Kumar , Vidit Agrawal , Sudeshna Sinha

Large-scale human social network structure is typically inferred from digital trace samples of online social media platforms or mobile communication data. Instead, here we investigate the social network structure of a complete population,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-29 Eszter Bokányi , Eelke M. Heemskerk , Frank W. Takes

Owing to the influence of real-world networks both in science and society, numerous mathematical models have been developed to understand the structure and evolution of these systems, particularly in a temporal context. Recent advancements…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Sayan Banerjee , Shankar Bhamidi , Partha Dey , Akshay Sakanaveeti

Complex systems, ranging from soft materials to wireless communication, are often organised as random geometric networks in which nodes and edges evenly fill up the volume of some space. Studying such networks is difficult because they…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Ivan Kryven , Rik Versendaal

The topology of many real complex networks has been conjectured to be embedded in hidden metric spaces, where distances between nodes encode their likelihood of being connected. Besides of providing a natural geometrical interpretation of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-01-23 Antoine Allard , M. Ángeles Serrano , Guillermo García-Pérez , Marián Boguñá

Dynamical processes taking place on networks have received much attention in recent years, especially on various models of random graphs (including small world and scale free networks). They model a variety of phenomena, including the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jonathan Rowe , Boris Mitavskiy

This work develops the concept of temporal network epistemology model enabling the simulation of the learning process in dynamic networks. The results of the research, conducted on the temporal social network generated using the CogSNet…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Radosław Michalski , Damian Serwata , Mateusz Nurek , Boleslaw K. Szymanski , Przemysław Kazienko , Tao Jia

Can the topology of a network that consists of many particles interacting with each other change in complexity when a phase transition occurs? The answer to this question is particularly interesting to understand the nature of phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-12 Chung-Pin Chou

Understanding the evolution of cooperation in structured populations represented by networks is a problem of long research interest, and a most fundamental and widespread property of social networks related to cooperation phenomena is that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-09-25 Aming Li , Yao Meng , Lei Zhou , Naoki Masuda , Long Wang

Many complex networks demonstrate a phenomenon of striking degree correlations, i.e., a node tends to link to other nodes with similar (or dissimilar) degrees. From the perspective of degree correlations, this paper attempts to characterize…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-21 Bin Jiang , Yingying Duan , Feng Lu , Tinghong Yang , Jing Zhao