Patterns in randomly evolving networks: Idiotypic networks

Details Patterns in randomly evolving networks: Idiotypic networks Patterns in randomly evolving networks: Idiotypic networks

2002-08-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0208246v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

19 pages, 25 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.67.031920

We present a model for the evolution of networks of occupied sites on undirected regular graphs. At every iteration step in a parallel update I randomly chosen empty sites are occupied and occupied sites having degree outside of a given interval (t_l,t_u) are set empty. Depending on the influx I and the values of both lower threshold and upper threshold of the degree different kinds of behaviour can be observed. In certain regimes stable long-living patterns appear. We distinguish two types of pattern: static patterns arising on graphs with low connectivity and dynamic patterns found on high connectivity graphs. Increasing I patterns become unstable and transitions between almost stable patterns, interrupted by disordered phases, occur. For still larger I the lifetime of occupied sites becomes very small and network structures are dominated by randomness. We develop methods to analyze nature and dynamics of these network patterns, give a statistical description of defects and fluctuations around them, and elucidate transitions between different patterns. Results and methods presented can be applied to a variety of problems in different fields and a broad class of graphs. Aiming chiefly at the modeling of functional networks of interacting antibodies and B-cells of the immune system (idiotypic networks) we focus on a class of graphs constructed by bit-chains. The biological relevance of the patterns and possible operational modes of idiotypic networks are discussed.

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