Temporal fractal structures: Origin of power laws in the world-wide Web

DOI10.1016/S0378-4371(02)01072-5zbMATH Open1001.68010arXivcond-mat/0112047MaRDI QIDQ1850371FDOQ1850371

Authors: Bosiljka Tadić 

Publication date: 3 December 2002

Published in: Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Using numerical simulations and scaling theory we study the dynamics of the world-wide Web from the growth rules recently proposed in Ref. [1] with appropriate parameters. We demonstrate that the emergence of power-law behavior of the out- and in-degree distributions in the Web involves occurrence of temporal fractal structures, that are manifested in the scale-free growth of the local connectivity and in first-return time statistics. We also show how the scale-free behavior occurs in the statistics of random walks on the Web, where the walkers use information on the local graph connectivity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0112047

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zbMATH Keywords

scaling theoryrandom walk statisticsgrowth rules

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Distributed systems (68M14)

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• Statistical mechanics of complex networks
• Exploring complex networks
• Dynamics of directed graphs: The world-wide Web

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