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Multilayer networks provide a more comprehensive framework for exploring real-world and engineering systems than traditional single-layer networks, consisting of multiple interacting networks. However, despite significant research in…

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We consider the question of determining how the topological structure influences a consensus dynamical process taking place on a network. By considering a large dataset of real-world networks we first determine that the removal of edges…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-09 Ernesto Estrada , Eusebio Vargas-Estrada , Hiroyasu Ando

Higher-order networks have emerged as a powerful framework to model complex systems and their collective behavior. Going beyond pairwise interactions, they encode structured relations among arbitrary numbers of units through representations…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-03-24 Yuanzhao Zhang , Maxime Lucas , Federico Battiston

Traditionally, interaction systems have been described as networks, where links encode information on the pairwise influences among the nodes. Yet, in many systems, interactions take place in larger groups. Recent work has shown that…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-09-30 Maxime Lucas , Giulia Cencetti , Federico Battiston

Simplicial synchronization reveals the role that topology and geometry have in determining the dynamical properties of simplicial complexes. Simplicial network geometry and topology are naturally encoded in the spectral properties of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-05-18 Ana Paula Millán , Juan G. Restrepo , Joaquín J. Torres , Ginestra Bianconi

Networks are important structures used to model complex systems where interactions take place. In a basic network model, entities are represented as nodes, and interaction and relations among them are represented as edges. However, in a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Mehmet Emin Aktas , Esra Akbas

Higher-order networks are able to capture the many-body interactions present in complex systems and to unveil new fundamental phenomena revealing the rich interplay between topology, geometry, and dynamics. Simplicial complexes are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-10-08 Runyue Wang , Riccardo Muolo , Timoteo Carletti , Ginestra Bianconi

Link partitioning is a popular approach in network science used for discovering overlapping communities by identifying clusters of strongly connected links. Current link partitioning methods are specifically designed for networks modelled…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Xinyi Wu , Arnab Sarker , Ali Jadbabaie

Node-level random walk has been widely used to improve Graph Neural Networks. However, there is limited attention to random walk on edge and, more generally, on $k$-simplices. This paper systematically analyzes how random walk on different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Cai Zhou , Xiyuan Wang , Muhan Zhang

Complex systems in the real world can be modeled as a network of connected components. The human brain, as a network of neurons among which the interactions cause perception, is a complex network. Synchronization is a dynamical phenomenon…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-04-30 Arefeh Mazarei , Mohammad Amirian Matlob , Gholamhossein Riazi , Yousef Jamali

In the interdisciplinary field of network science, a complex-valued network, with edges assigned complex weights, provides a more nuanced representation of relationships by capturing both the magnitude and phase of interactions.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Aditi Saxena , Twinkle Tripathy , Rajasekhar Anguluri

In the study of dynamical systems on networks/graphs, a key theme is how the network topology influences stability for steady states or synchronized states. Ideally, one would like to derive conditions for stability or instability that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Raffaella Mulas , Christian Kuehn , Jürgen Jost

We propose a simplicial complex convolutional neural network (SCCNN) to learn data representations on simplicial complexes. It performs convolutions based on the multi-hop simplicial adjacencies via common faces and cofaces independently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Maosheng Yang , Elvin Isufi

In the last twenty years network science has proven its strength in modelling many real-world interacting systems as generic agents, the nodes, connected by pairwise edges. Yet, in many relevant cases, interactions are not pairwise but…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-26 Timoteo Carletti , Federico Battiston , Giulia Cencetti , Duccio Fanelli

Simplicial complexes describe collaboration networks, protein interaction networks and brain networks and in general network structures in which the interactions can include more than two nodes. In real applications, often simplicial…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-06-21 Owen T. Courtney , Ginestra Bianconi

We consider the problem of classifying trajectories on a discrete or discretised 2-dimensional manifold modelled by a simplicial complex. Previous works have proposed to project the trajectories into the harmonic eigenspace of the Hodge…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Vincent P. Grande , Josef Hoppe , Florian Frantzen , Michael T. Schaub

A dynamic concordia discors, a finely tuned equilibrium between opposing forces, is hypothesized to drive historical transformations. Similarly, a precise interplay of excitation and inhibition, often approximated by an 80:20 ratio,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-09 Giulio Iannelli , Pablo Villegas , Tommaso Gili , Andrea Gabrielli

The hierarchical small-world network is a real-world network. It models well the benefit transmission web of the pyramid selling in China and many other countries. In this paper, by applying the spectral graph theory, we study three…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-23 Yunhua Liao , Mohamed Maama , M. A. Aziz-Alaoui

Multiplex networks describe systems whose interactions can be of different nature, and are fundamental to understand complexity of networks beyond the framework of simple graphs. Recently it has been pointed out that restricting the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-14 Reza Ghorbanchian , Vito Latora , Ginestra Bianconi

Robustness of higher-order networks is often quantified by the instantaneous smallest positive eigenvalue of the Hodge $1$-Laplacian under simplex deletion. We show that this observable is generically ill-defined: along a deletion…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-03-26 Kaiming Luo