Triadic closure dynamics drives scaling laws in social multiplex networks

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/15/6/063008zbMATH Open1451.91151arXiv1301.0259OpenAlexW3105562891MaRDI QIDQ5141502FDOQ5141502

Authors: Peter Klimek, Stefan Thurner 

Publication date: 18 December 2020

Published in: New Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Social networks exhibit scaling-laws for several structural characteristics, such as the degree distribution, the scaling of the attachment kernel, and the clustering coefficients as a function of node degree. A detailed understanding if and how these scaling laws are inter-related is missing so far, let alone whether they can be understood through a common, dynamical principle. We propose a simple model for stationary network formation and show that the three mentioned scaling relations follow as natural consequences of triadic closure. The validity of the model is tested on multiplex data from a well studied massive multiplayer online game. We find that the three scaling exponents observed in the multiplex data for the friendship, communication and trading networks can simultaneously be explained by the model. These results suggest that triadic closure could be identified as one of the fundamental dynamical principles in social multiplex network formation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.0259

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30) Small world graphs, complex networks (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C82) (n)-person games, (n>2) (91A06)

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