Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2000-11-07
Phys. Rev. E 63, 062101 (2001)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
4 pages revtex, 3 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.63.062101
We show that the connectivity distributions $P(k,t)$ of scale-free growing networks ($t$ is the network size) have the generic scale -- the cut-off at $k_{cut} \sim t^\beta$. The scaling exponent $\beta$ is related to the exponent $\gamma$ of the connectivity distribution, $\beta=1/(\gamma-1)$. We propose the simplest model of scale-free growing networks and obtain the exact form of its connectivity distribution for any size of the network. We demonstrate that the trace of the initial conditions -- a hump at $k_h \sim k_{cut} \sim t^\beta$ -- may be found for any network size. We also show that there exists a natural boundary for the observation of the scale-free networks and explain why so few scale-free networks are observed in Nature.
Dorogovtsev S. N.
Mendes Jose Fernando F.
Samukhin A. N.
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