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Given a directed network $ G $, we are interested in studying the qualitative features of $ G $ which govern how perturbations propagate across $ G $. Various classical centrality measures have been already developed and proven useful to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Fenghuan He

Following Ollivier's work, we introduce the coarse Ricci curvature of a quantum channel as the contraction of non-commutative metrics on the state space. These metrics are defined as a non-commutative transportation cost in the spirit of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Li Gao , Cambyse Rouzé

We develop a new and systematic method for proving entropic Ricci curvature lower bounds for Markov chains on discrete sets. Using different methods, such bounds have recently been obtained in several examples (e.g., 1-dimensional birth and…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Max Fathi , Jan Maas

In this paper, we introduce a novel method for extending Ricci flow to hypergraphs by defining probability measures on the edges and transporting them on the line expansion. This approach yields a new weighting on the edges, which proves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Olympio Hacquard

Many applications in network science have recently been discovered for the "curvature" of a network, but there is no consensus on the definition for this term. A common approach in these applications is to derive from the curvature either a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Matthew Yancey

We explore properties of generalized Paley graphs and we extend a result of Lim and Praeger by providing a more precise description of the connected components of disconnected generalized Paley graphs. This result leads to a new…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Vincent Bonini , Daniel Chamberlin , Stephen Cook , Parthiv Seetharaman , Tri Tran

Controlling complex networks is of paramount importance in science and engineering. Despite the recent development of structural-controllability theory, we continue to lack a framework to control undirected complex networks, especially…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-10-23 Zhengzhong Yuan , Chen Zhao , Zengru Di , Wen-Xu Wang , Ying-Cheng Lai

With recent advances in high-throughput cell biology the amount of cellular biological data has grown drastically. Such data is often modeled as graphs (also called networks) and studying them can lead to new insights into molecule-level…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-11-09 David Aparício , Pedro Ribeiro , Fernando Silva

A vast variety of biological, social, and economical networks shows topologies drastically differing from random graphs; yet the quantitative characterization remains unsatisfactory from a conceptual point of view. Motivated from the…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2010-03-11 Jens Christian Claussen

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have been widely used due to their outstanding performance in processing graph-structured data. However, the undirected graphs limit their application scope. In this paper, we extend spectral-based graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Zekun Tong , Yuxuan Liang , Changsheng Sun , David S. Rosenblum , Andrew Lim

Network data, commonly used throughout the physical, social, and biological sciences, consist of nodes (individuals) and the edges (interactions) between them. One way to represent network data's complex, high-dimensional structure is to…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-27 Steven Wilkins-Reeves , Tyler McCormick

In this paper, we propose a modified Ricci flow, as well as a quasi-normalized Ricci flow, on arbitrary weighted graph. Each of these two flows has a unique global solution. In particular, these global existence and uniqueness results do…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Jicheng Ma , Yunyan Yang

We present a new approach to the calculation of measures in weighted networks, based on the translation of a weighted network into an ensemble of edges. This leads to a straightforward generalization of any measure defined on unweighted…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-06 S. E. Ahnert , D. Garlaschelli , T. M. Fink , G. Caldarelli

The recursive removal of leaves (dead end vertices) and their neighbors from an undirected network results, when this pruning algorithm stops, in a so-called core of the network. This specific subgraph should be distinguished from…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-12 N. Azimi-Tafreshi , S. N. Dorogovtsev , J. F. F. Mendes

While studies of meso-scale structures in networks often focus on community structure, core--periphery structures can reveal new insights. This structure typically consists of a well-connected core and a periphery that is well connected to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Andrew Elliott , Angus Chiu , Marya Bazzi , Gesine Reinert , Mihai Cucuringu

Community structure is a key feature omnipresent in real-world network data. Plethora of methods have been proposed to reveal subsets of densely interconnected nodes using criteria such as the modularity index. These approaches have been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Alexandre Cionca , Chun Hei Michael Chan , Dimitri Van De Ville

We express the discrete Ricci curvature of a graph as the minimal eigenvalue of a family of matrices, one for each vertex of a graph whose entries depend on the local adjaciency structure of the graph. Using this method we compute or bound…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Viola Siconolfi

The interaction of distinct units in physical, social, biological and technological systems naturally gives rise to complex network structures. Networks have constantly been in the focus of research for the last decade, with considerable…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-08-20 Tamás Nepusz , Tamás Vicsek

We define the Ricci curvature, as a measure, for certain singular torsion-free connections on the tangent bundle of a manifold. The definition uses an integral formula and vector-valued half-densities. We give relevant examples in which the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-01 John Lott

Directed graphs are widely used in modelling of nonsymmetric relations in various sciences and engineering disciplines. We discuss invariants of strongly connected directed graphs - minimal number of vertices or edges necessary to remove to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-10-21 Peteris Daugulis