Fractality and scale-free effect of a class of self-similar networks

Lifeng Xi, Lihong Wang, Songjing Wang, Zhouyu Yu and Qin Wang

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2017, vol. 478, issue C, 31-40

Abstract: In this paper, given an initial directed graph as a self-similar pattern and fix two nodes in the pattern, we can iterate the graph by replacing any directed edge with the initial graph of pattern and identifying the fixed nodes of pattern with the endpoints of directed edge. Using the iteration again and again, we obtain a family of growing self-similar networks. Modify these networks to be undirected ones, we obtain growing self-similar undirected networks. We obtain the fractality of our self-similar networks and find out the scale-free effect in terms of the matrix related to two fixed nodes in the initial graph.

Keywords: Complex network; Self-similarity; Fractality; Scale-free (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2017.02.049

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