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The small-community phenomenon in networks†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2012

ANGSHENG LI  and
PAN PENG
ANGSHENG LI
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 8718, Beijing, 100190, P.R. China Email: angsheng@ios.ac.cn
PAN PENG*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 8718, Beijing, 100190, P.R. China and School of Information Science and Engineering, Graduate University of China Academy of Sciences, P.R. China Email: pengpan@ios.ac.cn.
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§Corresponding author.
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Abstract

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We investigate several geometric models of networks that simultaneously have some nice global properties, including the small-diameter property, the small-community phenomenon, which is defined to capture the common experience that (almost) everyone in society also belongs to some meaningful small communities, and the power law degree distribution, for which our result significantly strengthens those given in van den Esker (2008) and Jordan (2010). These results, together with our previous work in Li and Peng (2011), build a mathematical foundation for the study of both communities and the small-community phenomenon in various networks.

In the proof of the power law degree distribution, we develop the method of alternating concentration analysis to build a concentration inequality by alternately and iteratively applying both the sub- and super-martingale inequalities, which seems to be a powerful technique with further potential applications.

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Mathematical Structures in Computer Science , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , June 2012 , pp. 373 - 407
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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This research was partially supported by NSFC distinguished young investigator award number 60325206, and its matching fund from the Hundred-Talent Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Both authors are partially supported by the Grand Project ‘Network Algorithms and Digital Information’ of the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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