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A random graph evolution based on the interactions of N vertices is studied. During the evolution both the preferential attachment method and the uniform choice of vertices are allowed. The weight of a vertex means the number of its…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-05-07 István Fazekas , Bettina Porvázsnyik

A random geometric graph $G(\mathcal{X}_n, r_n)$ is formed by taking a binomial process $\mathcal{X}_n$ as the set of vertices and joining any two distinct points with an edge if they lie within distance $r_n$ of each other. We investigate…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Junpei Otsuka

Circuit quantization is an extraordinarily successful theory that describes the behavior of quantum circuits with high precision. The most widely used approach of circuit quantization relies on introducing a classical Lagrangian whose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Andrew Osborne , Trevyn Larson , Sarah Jones , Ray W. Simmonds , András Gyenis , Andrew Lucas

In this paper we investigate the numerical approximation of an analogue of the Wasserstein distance for optimal transport on graphs that is defined via a discrete modification of the Benamou--Brenier formula. This approach involves the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-24 Matthias Erbar , Martin Rumpf , Bernhard Schmitzer , Stefan Simon

This is an attempt to address diffusion phenomena from the point of view of information theory. We imagine a regular hamiltonian system under the random perturbation of thermal (molecular) noise and chaotic instability. The irregularity of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Qiuping A. Wang

Approaches from statistical physics are applied to investigate the structure of network models whose growth rules mimic aspects of the evolution of the world-wide web. We first determine the degree distribution of a growing network in which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-23 P. L. Krapivsky , S. Redner

Here I present a new discrete model of quantum mechanics for relativistic 1-electron systems, in which particle movement is described by a directed space-time graph with attached 4-spinors, but without any continuous wave functions. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolfgang Koehler

We study the problem of detecting a random walk on a graph from a sequence of noisy measurements at every node. There are two hypotheses: either every observation is just meaningless zero-mean Gaussian noise, or at each time step exactly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Ameya Agaskar , Yue M. Lu

The semi-random graph process is a single player game in which the player is initially presented an empty graph on $n$ vertices. In each round, a vertex $u$ is presented to the player independently and uniformly at random. The player then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Pu Gao , Calum MacRury , Pawel Pralat

Convolutional layers within graph neural networks operate by aggregating information about local neighbourhood structures; one common way to encode such substructures is through random walks. The distribution of these random walks evolves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Csaba Toth , Darrick Lee , Celia Hacker , Harald Oberhauser

We analyze eigenvalues fluctuations of the Laplacian of various networks under the random matrix theory framework. Analyses of random networks, scale-free networks and small-world networks show that nearest neighbor spacing distribution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sarika Jalan , Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay

We demonstrate a mechanism for the production of massive excitations in graphs. We treat the number of neighbors at each vertex in the graph (degree) as a scalar field. Then we introduce a mechanism inspired by the Higgs mechanism in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-08 Ioannis Kleftogiannis , Ilias Amanatidis

We consider the random graph $G_{n, {\bf d}}$ chosen uniformly at random from the set of all graphs with a given sparse degree sequence ${\bf d}$. We assume ${\bf d}$ has minimum degree at least 4, at most a power law tail, and place one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-16 Tony Johansson

We study the linearization of a discrete transportation distance between probability distributions on finite weighted graphs originally due to Maas (``Gradient flows of the entropy for finite {M}arkov chains,'' J. Funct. Anal. 261(8), 2011)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Sawyer Robertson , Zhengchao Wan , Alexander Cloninger

Action-dependent field theories are systems where the Lagrangian or Hamiltonian depends on new variables that encode the action. They model a larger class of field theories, including non-conservative behavior, while maintaining a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-01 Manuel de León , Jordi Gaset Rifà , Miguel C. Muñoz-Lecanda , Xavier Rivas , Narciso Román-Roy

An analysis is made of a moving disturbance using a directed cyclic graph. A statistical approach is used to calculate the alternative positions in space and state of the disturbance with a defined observed time. The probability for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Brown

We propose a family of lagged random walk sampling methods in simple undirected graphs, where transition to the next state (i.e. node) depends on both the current and previous states -- hence, lagged. The existing random walk sampling…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Li-Chun Zhang

In recent decades, it has been emphasized that the evolving structure of networks may be shaped by interaction principles that yield sparse graphs with a vertex degree distribution exhibiting an algebraic tail, and other structural traits…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-01 Dario Borrelli

A class of high-order canonical symplectic structure-preserving geometric algorithms are developed for high-quality simulations of the quantized Dirac-Maxwell theory based strong-field quantum electrodynamics (SFQED) and relativistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-18 Qiang Chen , Jianyuan Xiao , Peifeng Fan

We consider the problem of sampling from a target distribution, which is \emph {not necessarily logconcave}, in the context of empirical risk minimization and stochastic optimization as presented in Raginsky et al. (2017). Non-asymptotic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Ngoc Huy Chau , Éric Moulines , Miklos Rásonyi , Sotirios Sabanis , Ying Zhang