L-percolations of complex networks -: art. no. 056106

Author(s)

Costa, LD

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: PHYSICAL REVIEW E; v. 70, n. 5, p. 8-pg., 2004-11-01.

Abstract

Given a complex network, its L-paths correspond to sequences of L+1 distinct nodes connected through L distinct edges. The L-conditional expansion of a complex network can be obtained by connecting all its pairs of nodes which are linked through at least one L-path, and the respective conditional L-expansion of the original network is defined as the intersection between the original network and its L-expansion. Such expansions are verified to act as filters enhancing the network connectivity, consequently contributing to the identification of communities in small-world models. It is shown in this paper for L=2 and 3. in both analytical and experimental fashions, that an evolving complex network with a fixed number of nodes undergoes successive phase transitions-the so-called L-percolations, giving rise to Eulerian giant clusters. It is also shown that the critical values of such percolations are a function of the network size and that the network percolates for L =3 before L=2. (AU)