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Dynamics of k-core percolation

Statistical Mechanics 2008-01-24 v1

Abstract

In many network applications nodes are stable provided they have at least k neighbors, and a network of k-stable nodes is called a k-core. The vulnerability to random attack is characterized by the size of culling avalanches which occur after a randomly chosen k-core node is removed. Simulations of lattices in two, three and four dimensions, as well as small world networks, indicate that power-law avalanches occur in first order k-core systems, while truncated avalanches are characteristic of second order cases.

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@article{arxiv.0801.3644,
  title  = {Dynamics of k-core percolation},
  author = {C. L. Farrow and P. Shukla and P. M. Duxbury},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.3644},
  year   = {2008}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures

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