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Competing contact processes on homogeneous networks with tunable clusterization

Physics and Society 2015-06-11 v1 Computational Physics

Abstract

We investigate two homogeneous networks: the Watts-Strogatz network and the random Erdos-Renyi network, the latter with tunable clustering coefficient CC. The network is an area of two competing contact processes, where nodes can be in two states, S or D. A node S becomes D with probability 1 if at least two its mutually linked neighbours are D. A node D becomes S with a given probability pp if at least one of its neighbours is S. The competition between the processes is described by a phase diagram, where the critical probability pcp_c depends on the clustering coefficient CC. For p>pcp>p_c the rate of state S increases in time, seemingly to dominate in the whole system. Below pcp_c, the contribution of D-nodes remains finite. The numerical results, supported by mean field approach, indicate that the transition is discontinuous.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1209.4034,
  title  = {Competing contact processes on homogeneous networks with tunable clusterization},
  author = {Marcin Rybak and Krzysztof Kulakowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.4034},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

13 pages, 4 figures

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