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We study statistical properties of a zero-range process (ZRP) on random networks. We derive an analytic expression for the distribution of particles (also called node occupation distribution) in the steady state of the ZRP in the ensemble…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Waclaw , Z. Burda , W. Janke

Maximum entropy null models of networks come in different flavors that depend on the type of constraints under which entropy is maximized. If the constraints are on degree sequences or distributions, we are dealing with configuration…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-30 Ivan Voitalov , Pim van der Hoorn , Maksim Kitsak , Fragkiskos Papadopoulos , Dmitri Krioukov

In this paper we introduce a new notion of convergence of sparse graphs which we call Large Deviations or LD-convergence and which is based on the theory of large deviations. The notion is introduced by "decorating" the nodes of the graph…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-02-20 Christian Borgs , Jennifer Chayes , David Gamarnik

We analyze about two hundred naturally occurring networks with distinct dynamical origins to formally test whether the commonly assumed hypothesis of an underlying scale-free structure is generally viable. This has recently been questioned…

Hypergraphs are a generalization of graphs in which edges can connect any number of vertices. They allow the modeling of complex networks with higher-order interactions, and their spectral theory studies the qualitative properties that can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-01 Raffaella Mulas

Spatial random graphs capture several important properties of real-world networks. We prove quenched results for the continuum space version of scale-free percolation introduced in [DW18]. This is an undirected inhomogeneous random graph…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-18 Joseba Dalmau , Michele Salvi

Given an underlying undirected simple graph, we consider the set of all acyclic orientations of its edges. Each of these orientations induces a partial order on the vertices of our graph and, therefore, we can count the number of linear…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-17 Benjamin Iriarte Giraldo

We consider the problem of detecting whether a power-law inhomogeneous random graph contains a geometric community, and we frame this as an hypothesis testing problem. More precisely, we assume that we are given a sample from an unknown…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Gianmarco Bet , Riccardo Michielan , Clara Stegehuis

We study the limiting spectral distribution of the normalized Laplacian $\mathcal L$ of an Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graph $G(n,p)$. To account for the presence of isolated vertices in the sparse regime, we define $\mathcal L$ using the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Yiming Chen , Zijun Chen , Yizhe Zhu

We define a statistical ensemble of non-degenerate graphs, i.e. graphs without multiple- and self-connections between nodes. The node degree distribution is arbitrary, but the nodes are assumed to be uncorrelated. This completes our earlier…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. Burda , A. Krzywicki

We study the detection and the reconstruction of a large very dense subgraph in a social graph with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges given as a stream of edges, when the graph follows a power law degree distribution, in the regime when $m=O(n. \log…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Claire Mathieu , Michel de Rougemont

It is well known that the set of possible degree sequences for a graph on $n$ vertices is the intersection of a lattice and a convex polytope. We show that the set of possible degree sequences for a $k$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-01-31 Ricky Ini Liu

Subgraphs such as cliques, loops and stars form crucial connections in the topologies of real-world networks. Random graph models provide estimates for how often certain subgraphs appear, which in turn can be tested against real-world…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden , Clara Stegehuis

We consider the adjacency matrices of sparse random graphs from the Chung-Lu model, where edges are added independently between the $N$ vertices with varying probabilities $p_{ij}$. The rank of the matrix $(p_{ij})$ is some fixed positive…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-14 Ben Adlam , Ziliang Che

Given a countable graph, we say a set $A$ of its vertices is \emph{universal} if it contains every countable graph as an induced subgraph, and $A$ is \emph{weakly universal} if it contains every finite graph as an induced subgraph. We show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-24 Will Brian

In this article, we explicitly derive the limiting degree distribution of the shortest path tree from a single source on various random network models with edge weights. We determine the asymptotics of the degree distribution for large…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-11 Shankar Bhamidi , Jesse Goodman , Remco van der Hofstad , Júlia Komjáthy

We consider a class of growing random graphs obtained by creating vertices sequentially one by one: at each step, we choose uniformly the neighbours of the newly created vertex; its degree is a random variable with a fixed but arbitrary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-13 Svante Janson , Simone Severini

Hypergraphs have emerged as a powerful modeling framework to represent systems with multiway interactions, that is systems where interactions may involve an arbitrary number of agents. Here we explore the properties of real-world…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Timothy LaRock , Renaud Lambiotte

Using a maximum entropy principle to assign a statistical weight to any graph, we introduce a model of random graphs with arbitrary degree distribution in the framework of standard statistical mechanics. We compute the free energy and the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Bauer , D. Bernard

We prove that sparse string graphs in a fixed surface have linear expansion. We extend this result to the more general setting of sparse region intersection graphs over any proper minor-closed class. The proofs are combinatorial and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Nikolai Karol , David R. Wood