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Phase transitions and other phenomena in graphs grown with preferential attachment

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We study a model of grown graph where a vertex is added at each time step, then an edge is added with probability δ. Callaway et al. showed that when both end vertices of the edge are chosen uniformly at random, the critical probability of edges δc to get a component which grows linearly with the number of vertices (a giant component) was \sfrac 1/8, smaller than in a comparable static graph. We derive a formula giving δc as a function of the initial self-attractiveness of vertices in a growth model where one end of the edge is chosen with preferential attachment. This number decreases even more as the self-attractiveness increases. For a self-attractiveness of one (value generally accepted for the web graph), it takes less than one edge for every twelve vertices to get a component whose size grows linearly with the number of vertices. This explains why graphs with more edges, such as the web-graph, or connectivity graphs of peer-to-peer networks, are so well connected and so well resilient to the deletion of edges. We also show how to derive a formula giving the size of this giant component as function of the number of edges and the initial attractiveness.

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2006-02-25

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Cornell University

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computer science; technical report

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http://techreports.library.cornell.edu:8081/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.cis/TR2006-2018

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