Robustness of scale-free spatial networks

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Publication:2012248




Abstract: A growing family of random graphs is called robust if it retains a giant component after percolation with arbitrary positive retention probability. We study robustness for graphs, in which new vertices are given a spatial position on the d-dimensional torus and are connected to existing vertices with a probability favouring short spatial distances and high degrees. In this model of a scale-free network with clustering we can independently tune the power law exponent au of the degree distribution and the rate deltad at which the connection probability decreases with the distance of two vertices. We show that the network is robust if au<2+1/delta, but fails to be robust if au>3. In the case of one-dimensional space we also show that the network is not robust if au<2+1/(delta1). This implies that robustness of a scale-free network depends not only on its power-law exponent but also on its clustering features. Other than the classical models of scale-free networks our model is not locally tree-like, and hence we need to develop novel methods for its study, including, for example, a surprising application of the BK-inequality.









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