Power series models of self-similarity in social networks

DOI10.1016/J.INS.2016.10.010MaRDI QIDQ2282304zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Subhash C. Kak

Publication date 7 January 2020

Published in Information Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.07497

zbMATH Keywords

80-20 phenomenonconnectivitygolden ratioself-similaritysocial networks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30)

Abstract: Two power series models are proposed to represent self-similarity and they are compared to the Zipf and Benford distributions. Since evolution of a social network is associated with replicating self-similarity at many levels, the nature of interconnections can serve as a measure of the optimality of its organization. In contrast with the Zipf distribution where the middle term is the harmonic mean of the adjoining terms, our distribution considers the middle term to be the geometric mean. In one of the power series models, the scaling factor at one level is shown to be the golden ratio. A model for evolution of networks by oscillations between two different self-similarity measures is described.

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