Physics – Physics and Society
Scientific paper
2011-10-14
Physics
Physics and Society
13 pages, 9 figures, submitted
Scientific paper
We study the evolution of branching trees embedded in Euclidean spaces with suppressed branching of spatially close nodes. This cooperative branching process accounts for the effect of overcrowding of nodes in the embedding space and mimics the evolution of life processes (the so-called "tree of life") in which a new level of complexity emerges as a short transition followed by a long period of gradual evolution or even complete extinction. We consider the models of branching trees in which each new node can produce up to two twigs within a unit distance from the node in the Euclidean space, but this branching is suppressed if the newborn node is closer than at distance $a$ from one of the previous generation nodes. This results in an explosive (exponential) growth in the initial period, and, after some crossover time $t_x \sim \ln(1/a)$ for small $a$, in a slow (power-law) growth. This special point is also a transition from "small" to "large words" in terms of network science. We show that if the space is restricted, then this evolution may end by extinction.
Crokidakis Nuno
Dorogovtsev S. N.
Forgerini Fabricio L.
Mendes Jose Fernando F.
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