Preferential attachment growth model and nonextensive statistical mechanics

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2004-10-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0410459v1

Europhysics Letters 70, 70-76 (2005).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

5 pages including 5 figures (the original colored figures 1 and 5a can be asked directly to the authors)

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We introduce a two-dimensional growth model where every new site is located, at a distance $r$ from the barycenter of the pre-existing graph, according to the probability law $1/r^{2+\alpha_G} (\alpha_G \ge 0)$, and is attached to (only) one pre-existing site with a probability $\propto k_i/r^{\alpha_A}_i (\alpha_A \ge 0$; $k_i$ is the number of links of the $i^{th}$ site of the pre-existing graph, and $r_i$ its distance to the new site). Then we numerically determine that the probability distribution for a site to have $k$ links is asymptotically given, for all values of $\alpha_G$, by $P(k) \propto e_q^{-k/\kappa}$, where $e_q^x \equiv [1+(1-q)x]^{1/(1-q)}$ is the function naturally emerging within nonextensive statistical mechanics. The entropic index is numerically given (at least for $\alpha_A$ not too large) by $q = 1+(1/3) e^{-0.526 \alpha_A}$, and the characteristic number of links by $\kappa \simeq 0.1+0.08 \alpha_A$. The $\alpha_A=0$ particular case belongs to the same universality class to which the Barabasi-Albert model belongs. In addition to this, we have numerically studied the rate at which the average number of links $$ increases with the scaled time $t/i$; asymptotically, $ \propto (t/i)^\beta$, the exponent being close to $\beta={1/2}(1-\alpha_A)$ for $0 \le \alpha_A \le 1$, and zero otherwise. The present results reinforce the conjecture that the microscopic dynamics of nonextensive systems typically build (for instance, in Gibbs $\Gamma$-space for Hamiltonian systems) a scale-free network.

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