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We give sufficient conditions under which a random graph with a specified degree sequence is symmetric or asymmetric. In the case of bounded degree sequences, our characterisation captures the phase transition of the symmetry of the random…

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Topological metrics of graphs provide a natural way to describe the prominent features of various types of networks. Graph metrics describe the structure and interplay of graph edges and have found applications in many scientific fields. In…

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Complex numbers define the relationship between entities in many situations. A canonical example would be the off-diagonal terms in a Hamiltonian matrix in quantum physics. Recent years have seen an increasing interest to extend the tools…

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This paper discusses the interplay of symmetries and stability in the analysis and control of nonlinear dynamical systems and networks. Specifically, it combines standard results on symmetries and equivariance with recent convergence…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Giovanni Russo , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine

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

We construct equilibrium networks by introducing an energy function depending on the degree of each node as well as the product of neighboring degrees. With this topological energy function, networks constitute a canonical ensemble, which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daun Jeong , M. Y. Choi , Hyunggyu Park

The statistical tools of Complex Network Analysis are of great use to understand salient properties of complex systems, may these be natural or pertaining human engineered infrastructures. One of these that is receiving growing attention…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-19 Giuliano Andrea Pagani , Marco Aiello

We develop a new ensemble of modular random graphs in which degree-degree correlations can be different in each module and the inter-module connections are defined by the joint degree-degree distribution of nodes for each pair of modules.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-04-18 Sergey Melnik , Mason A. Porter , Peter J. Mucha , James P. Gleeson

We normalize the combinatorial Laplacian of a graph by the degree sum, look at its eigenvalues as a probability distribution and then study its Shannon entropy. Equivalently, we represent a graph with a quantum mechanical state and study…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-04-24 Filippo Passerini , Simone Severini

Various important and useful quantities or measures that characterize the topological network structure are usually investigated for a network, then they are averaged over the samples. In this paper, we propose an explicit representation by…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-02 Yukio Hayashi

Different network models have been suggested for the topology underlying complex interactions in natural systems. These models are aimed at replicating specific statistical features encountered in real-world networks. However, it is rarely…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-06-11 Stefano Cardanobile , Volker Pernice , Moritz Deger , Stefan Rotter

In self-gravitating stars, two dimensional or geophysical flows and in plasmas, long range interactions imply a lack of additivity for the energy; as a consequence, the usual thermodynamic limit is not appropriate. However, by contrast with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Freddy Bouchet , Julien Barré , Antoine Venaille

We introduce a novel approach to description of networks/graphs. It is based on an analogue physical model which is dynamically evolved. This evolution depends on the connectivity matrix and readily brings out many qualitative features of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Gudkov , Joseph E. Johnson , Shmuel Nussinov

We perform a massive evaluation of neural networks with architectures corresponding to random graphs of various types. We investigate various structural and numerical properties of the graphs in relation to neural network test accuracy. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Romuald A. Janik , Aleksandra Nowak

We investigate exponential families of random graph distributions as a framework for systematic quantification of structure in networks. In this paper we restrict ourselves to undirected unlabeled graphs. For these graphs, the counts of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-04-08 Eckehard Olbrich , Thomas Kahle , Nils Bertschinger , Nihat Ay , Juergen Jost

Structural balance theory assumes triads in networks to gravitate towards stable configurations. The theory has been verified for undirected graphs. Since real-world networks are often directed, we introduce a novel method for considering…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Ly Dinh , Rezvaneh Rezapour , Lan Jiang , Jana Diesner

The poster presents an analytic formalism describing metric properties of undirected random graphs with arbitrary degree distributions and statistically uncorrelated (i.e. randomly connected) vertices. The formalism allows to calculate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Agata Fronczak , Piotr Fronczak , Janusz A. Holyst

Structural balance theory predicts that triads in networks gravitate towards stable configurations. The theory has been verified for undirected graphs. Since real-world networks are often directed, we introduce a novel method for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Rezvaneh Rezapour , Ly Dinh , Lan Jiang , Jana Diesner

The equilibrium properties of allocation algorithms for networks with a large number of nodes with finite capacity are investigated. Every node is receiving a flow of requests and when a request arrives at a saturated node, i.e. a node…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Davit Martirosyan , Philippe Robert

In the last 15 years, statistical physics has been a very successful framework to model complex networks. On the theoretical side, this approach has brought novel insights into a variety of physical phenomena, such as self-organisation,…