Metric structure of random networks

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DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(02)01119-7zbMATH Open1010.05073arXivcond-mat/0210085OpenAlexW3103952223WikidataQ59280484 ScholiaQ59280484MaRDI QIDQ1860844FDOQ1860844

J. F. F. Mendes, S. N. Dorogovtsev, A. N. Samukhin

Publication date: 26 February 2003

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose a consistent approach to the statistics of the shortest paths in random graphs with a given degree distribution. This approach goes further than a usual tree ansatz and rigorously accounts for loops in a network. We calculate the distribution of shortest-path lengths (intervertex distances) in these networks and a number of related characteristics for the networks with various degree distributions. We show that in the large network limit this extremely narrow intervertex distance distribution has a finite width while the mean intervertex distance grows with the size of a network. The size dependence of the mean intervertex distance is discussed in various situations.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0210085





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