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Network Density of States
Spectral analysis connects graph structure to the eigenvalues and
eigenvectors of associated matrices. Much of spectral graph theory descends
directly from spectral geometry, the study of differentiable manifolds through
the spectra of associated differential operators. But the translation from
spectral geometry to spectral graph theory has largely focused on results
involving only a few extreme eigenvalues and their associated eigenvalues.
Unlike in geometry, the study of graphs through the overall distribution of
eigenvalues - the spectral density - is largely limited to simple random graph
models. The interior of the spectrum of real-world graphs remains largely
unexplored, difficult to compute and to interpret.
In this paper, we delve into the heart of spectral densities of real-world
graphs. We borrow tools developed in condensed matter physics, and add novel
adaptations to handle the spectral signatures of common graph motifs. The
resulting methods are highly efficient, as we illustrate by computing spectral
densities for graphs with over a billion edges on a single compute node. Beyond
providing visually compelling fingerprints of graphs, we show how the
estimation of spectral densities facilitates the computation of many common
centrality measures, and use spectral densities to estimate meaningful
information about graph structure that cannot be inferred from the extremal
eigenpairs alone.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figure
Exploring self-similarity of complex cellular networks: The edge-covering method with simulated annealing and log-periodic sampling
Song, Havlin and Makse (2005) have recently used a version of the
box-counting method, called the node-covering method, to quantify the
self-similar properties of 43 cellular networks: the minimal number of
boxes of size needed to cover all the nodes of a cellular network was
found to scale as the power law with a fractal
dimension . We propose a new box-counting method based on
edge-covering, which outperforms the node-covering approach when applied to
strictly self-similar model networks, such as the Sierpinski network. The
minimal number of boxes of size in the edge-covering method is
obtained with the simulated annealing algorithm. We take into account the
possible discrete scale symmetry of networks (artifactual and/or real), which
is visualized in terms of log-periodic oscillations in the dependence of the
logarithm of as a function of the logarithm of . In this way, we
are able to remove the bias of the estimator of the fractal dimension, existing
for finite networks. With this new methodology, we find that scales with
respect to as a power law with
for the 43 cellular networks previously analyzed by Song, Havlin and Makse
(2005). Bootstrap tests suggest that the analyzed cellular networks may have a
significant log-periodicity qualifying a discrete hierarchy with a scaling
ratio close to 2. In sum, we propose that our method of edge-covering with
simulated annealing and log-periodic sampling minimizes the significant bias in
the determination of fractal dimensions in log-log regressions.Comment: 19 elsart pages including 9 eps figure
Probability of local bifurcation type from a fixed point: A random matrix perspective
Results regarding probable bifurcations from fixed points are presented in
the context of general dynamical systems (real, random matrices), time-delay
dynamical systems (companion matrices), and a set of mappings known for their
properties as universal approximators (neural networks). The eigenvalue spectra
is considered both numerically and analytically using previous work of Edelman
et. al. Based upon the numerical evidence, various conjectures are presented.
The conclusion is that in many circumstances, most bifurcations from fixed
points of large dynamical systems will be due to complex eigenvalues.
Nevertheless, surprising situations are presented for which the aforementioned
conclusion is not general, e.g. real random matrices with Gaussian elements
with a large positive mean and finite variance.Comment: 21 pages, 19 figure
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