| Title: |
Broad lifetime distributions for ordering dynamics in complex networks |
| Authors: |
Toivonen, Riitta; Castelló, Xavier; Eguíluz, Víctor M.; Saramäki, J.; Kaski, K.; San Miguel, Maxi |
| Publisher Information: |
American Physical Society 2009-01-23 |
| Document Type: |
Electronic Resource |
| Abstract: |
We search for conditions under which a characteristic time scale for ordering dynamics toward either of two absorbing states in a finite complex network of interactions does not exist. With this aim, we study random networks and networks with mesoscale community structure built up from randomly connected cliques. We find that large heterogeneity at the mesoscale level of the network appears to be a sufficient mechanism for the absence of a characteristic time for the dynamics. Such heterogeneity results in dynamical metastable states that survive at any time scale. |
| Index Terms: |
Complex networks; Network theory (graphs); Nonlinear dynamical systems; Random processes; Self-adjusting systems; [PACS] Networks and genealogical trees; [PACS] Social and economic systems; [PACS] Structures and organization in complex systems; artículo |
| URL: |
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/15102; http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.79.016109 |
| Availability: |
Open access content. Open access content; openAccess |
| Note: |
English |
| Other Numbers: |
CTK oai:digital.csic.es:10261/15102; Physical Review E 79(1): 016109 (2009); 1539-3755; 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.016109; 1103347568 |
| Contributing Source: |
CSIC; From OAIster®, provided by the OCLC Cooperative. |
| Accession Number: |
edsoai.on1103347568 |
| Database: |
OAIster |