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Width of a scale-free tree

Part of: Graph theory Combinatorial probability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Zsolt Katona
Zsolt Katona*
Affiliation:
Eötvös Loránd University
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Abstract

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Consider the random graph model of Barabási and Albert, where we add a new vertex in every step and connect it to some old vertices with probabilities proportional to their degrees. If we connect it to only one of the old vertices then this will be a tree. These graphs have been shown to have a power-law degree distribution, the same as that observed in some large real-world networks. We are interested in the width of the tree and we show that it is at the nth step; this also holds for a slight generalization of the model with another constant. We then see how this theoretical result can be applied to directory trees.

Keywords

Random graphscale-free distributionwidth of trees

MSC classification

Primary: 05C80: Random graphs
Secondary: 60C05: Combinatorial probability
Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 42 , Issue 3 , September 2005 , pp. 839 - 850
Copyright
© Applied Probability Trust 2005 

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