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A set of general allometric scaling laws is derived for different systems represented by tree networks. The formulation postulates self-similar networks with an arbitrary number of branches developed in each generation, and with an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-10-06 L. Zavala Sansón , A. González-Villanueva

Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are essential components of the global hydrological cycle, with profound implications for water resources, extreme weather events, and climate dynamics. Yet, the statistical organization and underlying physical…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-04-11 Shang Wang , Jun Meng , Sheng Fang , Teng Liu , Kim Christensen , Jürgen Kurths , Jingfang Fan

Understanding the origins of complexity is a fundamental challenge with implications for biological and technological systems. Network theory emerges as a powerful tool to model complex systems. Networks are an intuitive framework to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-10-22 Blai Vidiella , Salva Duran-Nebreda , Sergi Valverde

We analyze the Optimal Channel Network model for river networks using both analytical and numerical approaches. This is a lattice model in which a functional describing the dissipated energy is introduced and minimized in order to find the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 F. Colaiori , A. Flammini , A. Maritan , J. R. Banavar

We evolve network topology of an asymmetrically connected threshold network by a simple local rewiring rule: quiet nodes grow links, active nodes lose links. This leads to convergence of the average connectivity of the network towards the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Stefan Bornholdt , Thimo Rohlf

We investigate the relevance of {\sl self-organized criticality (SOC)} models in previously published empirical datasets, which includes statistical observations in astrophysics, geophysics, biophysics, sociophysics, and informatics. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-05 Markus J. Aschwanden , Felix Scholkmann

Topological data analysis can extract effective information from higher-dimensional data. Its mathematical basis is persistent homology. The persistent homology can calculate topological features at different spatiotemporal scales of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-09-29 Dinghua Shi , Zhifeng Chen , Chuang Ma , Guanrong Chen

Transport networks are crucial to the functioning of natural systems and technological infrastructures. For flow networks in many scenarios, such as rivers or blood vessels, acyclic networks (i.e., trees) are optimal structures when…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-12-05 Erik Andreas Martens , Konstantin Klemm

Drainage basins are essential to Geohydrology and Biodiversity. Defining those regions in a simple, robust and efficient way is a constant challenge in Earth Science. Here, we introduce a model to delineate multiple drainage basins through…

We survey recent developments about random real trees, whose prototype is the Continuum Random Tree (CRT) introduced by Aldous in 1991. We briefly explain the formalism of real trees, which yields a neat presentation of the theory and in…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. F. Le Gall

Critical, or scale independent, systems are so ubiquitous, that gaining theoretical insights on their nature and properties has many direct repercussions in social and natural sciences. In this report, we start from the simplest possible…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-11-07 Laurent Hébert-Dufresne , Antoine Allard , Louis J. Dubé

Self-similarity is a property of fractal structures, a concept introduced by Mandelbrot and one of the fundamental mathematical results of the 20th century. The importance of fractal geometry stems from the fact that these structures were…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-08-20 Hernan D. Rozenfeld , Lazaros K. Gallos , Chaoming Song , Hernan A. Makse

Most random graph models are locally tree-like - do not contain short cycles - rendering them unfit for modeling networks with a community structure. We introduce the hierarchical configuration model (HCM), a generalization of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-07-12 Clara Stegehuis , Remco van der Hofstad , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden

The recent discovery of universal principles underlying many complex networks occurring across a wide range of length scales in the biological world has spurred physicists in trying to understand such features using techniques from…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Sitabhra Sinha

The investigation of community structure in networks is a task of great importance in many disciplines, namely physics, sociology, biology and computer science where systems are often represented as graphs. One of the challenges is to find…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-02-17 Emanuele Massaro , Franco Bagnoli

We study the asymptotic nature of geometric structures formed from a point cloud of observations of (generally heavy tailed) distributions in a Euclidean space of dimension greater than one. A typical example is given by the Betti numbers…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-11 Takashi Owada , Robert J. Adler

Hierarchical networks are attracting a renewal interest for modelling the organization of a number of biological systems and for tackling the complexity of statistical mechanical models beyond mean-field limitations. Here we consider the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-01-26 Elena Agliari , Adriano Barra , Andrea Galluzzi , Francesco Guerra , Daniele Tantari , Flavia Tavani

This paper explores a variety of strategies for understanding the formation, structure, efficiency and vulnerability of water distribution networks. Water supply systems are studied as spatially organized networks for which the practical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-04-04 A. Yazdani , P. Jeffrey

Imitation is a basic updating mechanism for strategy evolution in structured populations, determining how individuals sample social information and translate it into behavioral changes. Higher-order networks, such as hypergraphs, generalize…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-11 Bingxin Lin , Lei Zhou , Hao Fang

Following up on a previous work we examine a model of transportation network in some source-sink flow paradigm subjected to growth and resource allocation. The model is inspired from plants, and we add rules and factors that are analogous…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-02-03 Olivier Bui , Xavier Leoncini