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    Generalized gravity model for human migration

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    The gravity model (GM) analogous to Newton's law of universal gravitation has successfully described the flow between different spatial regions, such as human migration, traffic flows, international economic trades, etc. This simple but powerful approach relies only on the 'mass' factor represented by the scale of the regions and the 'geometrical' factor represented by the geographical distance. However, when the population has a subpopulation structure distinguished by different attributes, the estimation of the flow solely from the coarse-grained geographical factors in the GM causes the loss of differential geographical information for each attribute. To exploit the full information contained in the geographical information of subpopulation structure, we generalize the GM for population flow by explicitly harnessing the subpopulation properties characterized by both attributes and geography. As a concrete example, we examine the marriage patterns between the bride and the groom clans of Korea in the past. By exploiting more refined geographical and clan information, our generalized GM properly describes the real data, a part of which could not be explained by the conventional GM. Therefore, we would like to emphasize the necessity of using our generalized version of the GM, when the information on such nongeographical subpopulation structures is available.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures, 2 table

    Percolation properties of growing networks under an Achlioptas process

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    We study the percolation transition in growing networks under an Achlioptas process (AP). At each time step, a node is added in the network and, with the probability δ\delta, a link is formed between two nodes chosen by an AP. We find that there occurs the percolation transition with varying δ\delta and the critical point δc=0.5149(1)\delta_c=0.5149(1) is determined from the power-law behavior of order parameter and the crossing of the fourth-order cumulant at the critical point, also confirmed by the movement of the peak positions of the second largest cluster size to the δc\delta_c. Using the finite-size scaling analysis, we get β/νˉ=0.20(1)\beta/\bar{\nu}=0.20(1) and 1/νˉ=0.40(1)1/\bar{\nu}=0.40(1), which implies β≈1/2\beta \approx 1/2 and νˉ≈5/2\bar{\nu} \approx 5/2. The Fisher exponent τ=2.24(1)\tau = 2.24(1) for the cluster size distribution is obtained and shown to satisfy the hyperscaling relation.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, journal submitte
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