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Nonlinearity + Networks: A 2020 Vision

Social and Information Networks 2019-11-13 v1 Statistical Mechanics Dynamical Systems Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Physics and Society

Abstract

I briefly survey several fascinating topics in networks and nonlinearity. I highlight a few methods and ideas, including several of personal interest, that I anticipate to be especially important during the next several years. These topics include temporal networks (in which the entities and/or their interactions change in time), stochastic and deterministic dynamical processes on networks, adaptive networks (in which a dynamical process on a network is coupled to dynamics of network structure), and network structure and dynamics that include "higher-order" interactions (which involve three or more entities in a network). I draw examples from a variety of scenarios, including contagion dynamics, opinion models, waves, and coupled oscillators.

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@article{arxiv.1911.03805,
  title  = {Nonlinearity + Networks: A 2020 Vision},
  author = {Mason A. Porter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.03805},
  year   = {2019}
}

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book chapter in forthcoming collection

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