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Distribution of shortest path lengths in a class of node duplication network models.
Physical Review. E 2017 September
We present analytical results for the distribution of shortest path lengths (DSPL) in a network growth model which evolves by node duplication (ND). The model captures essential properties of the structure and growth dynamics of social networks, acquaintance networks, and scientific citation networks, where duplication mechanisms play a major role. Starting from an initial seed network, at each time step a random node, referred to as a mother node, is selected for duplication. Its daughter node is added to the network, forming a link to the mother node, and with probability p to each one of its neighbors. The degree distribution of the resulting network turns out to follow a power-law distribution, thus the ND network is a scale-free network. To calculate the DSPL we derive a master equation for the time evolution of the probability P_{t}(L=ℓ), ℓ=1,2,⋯, where L is the distance between a pair of nodes and t is the time. Finding an exact analytical solution of the master equation, we obtain a closed form expression for P_{t}(L=ℓ). The mean distance 〈L〉_{t} and the diameter Δ_{t} are found to scale like lnt, namely, the ND network is a small-world network. The variance of the DSPL is also found to scale like lnt. Interestingly, the mean distance and the diameter exhibit properties of a small-world network, rather than the ultrasmall-world network behavior observed in other scale-free networks, in which 〈L〉_{t}∼lnlnt.
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