English

Preferential Attachment Processes Approaching The Rado Multigraph

Combinatorics 2021-07-05 v4 Social and Information Networks Probability

Abstract

We consider a preferential attachment process in which a multigraph is built one node at a time. The number of edges added at stage tt, emanating from the new node, is given by some prescribed function f(t)f(t), generalising a model considered by Kleinberg and Kleinberg in 2005 where ff was presumed constant. We show that if f(t)f(t) is asymptotically bounded above and below by linear functions in tt, then with probability 11 the infinite limit of the process will be isomorphic to the \emph{Rado multigraph}. This structure is the natural multigraph analogue of the Rado graph, which we introduce here.

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@article{arxiv.1502.05618,
  title  = {Preferential Attachment Processes Approaching The Rado Multigraph},
  author = {Richard Elwes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.05618},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

24 pages. Accepted for publication in the Art of Discrete and Applied Mathematics

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