arXiv · cond-mat/0607327
Intermittent exploration on a scale-free network
Abstract
We study an intermittent random walk on a random network of scale-free degree distribution. The walk is a combination of simple random walks of duration $t_w$ and random long-range jumps. While the time the walker needs to cover all the nodes increases with $t_w$, the corresponding time for the edges displays a non monotonic behavior with a minimum for some nontrivial value of $t_w$. This is a heterogeneity-induced effect that is not observed in homogeneous small-world networks. The optimal $t_w$ increases with the degree of assortativity in the network. Depending on the nature of degree correlations and the elapsed time the walker finds an over/under-estimate of the degree distribution exponent.
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A. Ramezanpour. 2007-03-24. Intermittent exploration on a scale-free network. https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075%2F77%2F60004
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