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We introduce weighted Markovian graphs, a random walk model that decouples the transition dynamics of a Markov chain from (random) edge weights representing the cost of traversing each edge. This decoupling allows us to study the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Thao Le , Robbert van der Burg , Bernd Heidergott , Ines Lindner , Alessandro Zocca

We present a novel computational method of first-passage times between a starting site and a target site of regular bounded lattices. We derive accurate expressions for all the moments of this first-passage time, validated by numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 S Condamin , O. Benichou , M. Moreau

We introduce a model for a preferentially attached network which has grown from a small world network. Here, the average path length and the clustering coefficient are estimated, and the topological properties of modeled networks are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-04 Seungyoung Lee

Explicit determination of the mean first-passage time (MFPT) for trapping problem on complex media is a theoretical challenge. In this paper, we study random walks on the Apollonian network with a trap fixed at a given hub node (i.e. node…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-04-22 Zhongzhi Zhang , Jihong Guan , Wenlei Xie , Yi Qi , Shuigeng Zhou

Network topologies can be non-trivial, due to the complex underlying behaviors that form them. While past research has shown that some processes on networks may be characterized by low-order statistics describing nodes and their neighbors,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-10-22 Xin-Zeng Wu , Allon G. Percus , Keith Burghardt , Kristina Lerman

The global first passage time density of a network is the probability that a random walker released at a random site arrives at an absorbing trap at time T. We find simple expressions for the mean global first passage time <T> for five…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-09-04 C. P. Haynes , A. P. Roberts

We investigate the extreme first-passage statistics of $N$ non-interacting random walkers on discrete, hierarchical networks. {By distinguishing between transport limited by escape from localized initial states (injection-limited) and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Bhargav R. Karamched

A self-repelling random walk of a token on a graph is one in which at each step, the token moves to a neighbor that has been visited least often (with ties broken randomly). The properties of self-repelling random walks have been analyzed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Vinod Kulathumani , Masahiro Nakagawa , Anish Arora

We study the statistical properties of the sampled scale-free networks, deeply related to the proper identification of various real-world networks. We exploit three methods of sampling and investigate the topological properties such as…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-24 Sang Hoon Lee , Pan-Jun Kim , Hawoong Jeong

We use topological data analysis to study "functional networks" that we construct from time-series data from both experimental and synthetic sources. We use persistent homology with a weight rank clique filtration to gain insights into…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-24 Bernadette J. Stolz , Heather A. Harrington , Mason A. Porter

Random Walk is a basic algorithm to explore the structure of networks, which can be used in many tasks, such as local community detection and network embedding. Existing random walk methods are based on single networks that contain limited…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Dongsheng Luo , Yuchen Bian , Yaowei Yan , Xiong Yu , Jun Huan , Xiao Liu , Xiang Zhang

For a random walk on a network, the mean first-passage time from a node $i$ to another node $j$ chosen stochastically according to the equilibrium distribution of Markov chain representing the random walk is called Kemeny constant, which is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-01-17 Zhongzhi Zhang , Yibin Sheng , Zhengyi Hu , Guanrong Chen

We study the problem of searching for a fixed path $\epsilon_0\epsilon_1\cdots\epsilon_l$ on a network through random walks. We analyze the first hitting time of tracking the path, and obtain exact expression of mean first hitting time…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-07-13 Shao-Ping Wang , Wen-Jiang Pei

Complex networks describe a wide range of systems in nature and society, much quoted examples including the cell, a network of chemicals linked by chemical reactions, or the Internet, a network of routers and computers connected by physical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Reka Albert , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

The spectral theory of random walks on networks of arbitrary topology can be readily extended to study random walks and L\'evy flights subject to resetting on these structures. When a discrete-time process is stochastically brought back…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-22 Alejandro P. Riascos , Denis Boyer , José L. Mateos

We perform an in-depth study for mean first-passage time (MFPT)---a primary quantity for random walks with numerous applications---of maximal-entropy random walks (MERW) performed in complex networks. For MERW in a general network, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-17 Yuan Lin , Zhongzhi Zhang

A vast variety of real-life networks display the ubiquitous presence of scale-free phenomenon and small-world effect, both of which play a significant role in the dynamical processes running on networks. Although various dynamical processes…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-07-19 Zhongzhi Zhang , Shuigeng Zhou , Wenlei Xie , Lichao Chen , Yuan Lin , Jihong Guan

We derive an exact representation of the topological effect on the dynamics of sequence processing neural networks within signal-to-noise analysis. A new network structure parameter, loopiness coefficient, is introduced to quantitatively…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-05-11 Pan Zhang , Yong Chen

The results of transportation infrastructure network analyses have been used to analyze complex networks in a topological context. However, most modeling approaches, including those based on complex network theory, do not fully account for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-04-20 Qi Xu , Baohua Mao , Yun Bai

We investigate the first passage statistics of active continuous time random walks with Poissonian waiting time distribution on a one dimensional infinite lattice and a two dimensional infinite square lattice. We study the small and large…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-27 Stephy Jose