Scale-freeness for networks as a degenerate ground state: a Hamiltonian formulation

DOI10.1209/0295-5075/78/28004zbMATH Open1244.82077arXivcond-mat/0703242OpenAlexW2061021305MaRDI QIDQ2903641FDOQ2903641

Authors: Petter Minnhagen, S. Bernhardsson, Beom Jun Kim 

Publication date: 11 August 2012

Published in: Europhysics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The origin of scale-free degree distributions in the context of networks is addressed through an analogous non-network model in which the node degree corresponds to the number of balls in a box and the rewiring of links to balls moving between the boxes. A statistical mechanical formulation is presented and the corresponding Hamiltonian is derived. The energy, the entropy, as well as the degree distribution and its fluctuations are investigated at various temperatures. The scale-free distribution is shown to correspond to the degenerate ground state, which has small fluctuations in the degree distribution and yet a large entropy. We suggest an implication of our results from the viewpoint of the stability in evolution of networks.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0703242

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Small world graphs, complex networks (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C82) Applications of graph theory to circuits and networks (94C15) Time-dependent statistical mechanics (dynamic and nonequilibrium) (82C99)

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