Growing networks with preferential deletion and addition of edges

Maria Deijfen and Mathias Lindholm

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2009, vol. 388, issue 19, 4297-4303

Abstract: A preferential attachment model for a growing network incorporating the deletion of edges is studied and the expected asymptotic degree distribution is analyzed. At each time step t=1,2,…, with probability π1>0 a new vertex with one edge attached to it is added to the network and the edge is connected to an existing vertex chosen proportionally to its degree, with probability π2 a vertex is chosen proportionally to its degree and an edge is added between this vertex and a randomly chosen other vertex, and with probability π3=1−π1−π2<1/2 a vertex is chosen proportionally to its degree and a random edge of this vertex is deleted. The model is intended to capture a situation where high-degree vertices are more dynamic than low-degree vertices in the sense that their connections tend to be changing. A recursion formula is derived for the expected asymptotic fraction pk of vertices with degree k, and solving this recursion reveals that, for π3<1/3, we have pk∼k−(3−7π3)/(1−3π3), while, for π3>1/3, the fraction pk decays exponentially at rate (π1+π2)/2π3. There is hence a non-trivial upper bound for how much deletion the network can incorporate without losing the power-law behavior of the degree distribution. The analytical results are supported by simulations.

Keywords: Preferential attachment; Preferential deletion; Complex networks; Random graphs; Degree distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2009.06.032

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