Scaling in Small-World Resistor Networks
Abstract
We study the effective resistance of small-world resistor networks. Utilizing recent analytic results for the propagator of the Edwards-Wilkinson process on small-world networks, we obtain the asymptotic behavior of the disorder-averaged two-point resistance in the large system-size limit. We find that the small-world structure suppresses large network resistances: both the average resistance and its standard deviation approaches a finite value in the large system-size limit for any non-zero density of random links. We also consider a scenario where the link conductance decays as a power of the length of the random links, . In this case we find that the average effective system resistance diverges for any non-zero value of .
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0508056,
title = {Scaling in Small-World Resistor Networks},
author = {G. Korniss and M. B. Hastings and K. E. Bassler and M. J. Berryman and B. Kozma and D. Abbott},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0508056},
year = {2007}
}
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15 pages, 6 figures