Regensburg 2007 – scientific programme

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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 6: Statistical physics of complex networks II

DY 6.1: Talk

Monday, March 26, 2007, 14:30–14:45, H3

Fluctuation-dissipation relations in complex networks — Agata Fronczak, Piotr Fronczak, and •Janusz Holyst — Faculty of Physics and Center of Excellence for Complex Systems Research, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, PL-00-662 Warsaw, Poland

In this paper, we study fluctuations over several ensembles of maximum-entropy random networks. We derive several fluctuation-dissipation relations characterizing the susceptibilities of different networks to changes in external fields. In the case of networks with a given degree sequence, we argue that the scale-free topologies of real-world networks may arise as a result of the self-organization of real systems into sparse structures with low susceptibility to random external disruptions. We also show that the ensembles of networks with a given degree sequence and networks characterized by two-point correlations are equivalent to random networks with hidden variables.