arXiv · 1310.8321
Duality between preferential attachment and static random networks on hyperbolic spaces
Abstract
There is a complex relation between the mechanism of preferential attachment, scale-free degree distributions and hyperbolicity in complex networks. In fact, both preferential attachment and hidden hyperbolic spaces often generate scale-free networks. We show that there is actually a duality between a class of growing spatial networks based on preferential attachment on the sphere and a class of static random networks on the hyperbolic plane. Both classes of networks have the same scale-free degree distribution as the Barabasi-Albert model. As a limit of this correspondence, the Barabasi-Albert model is equivalent to a static random network on an hyperbolic space with infinite curvature.
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Luca Ferretti, Michele Cortelezzi, Marcello Mamino. 2014-02-26. Duality between preferential attachment and static random networks on hyperbolic spaces. https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075%2F105%2F38001
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