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Critical behavior of propagation on small-world networks
2001
Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics
We report numerical evidence that an epidemic-like model, which can be interpreted as the propagation of a rumor, exhibits critical behavior at a finite randomness of the underlying small-world network. The transition occurs between a regime where the rumor "dies" in a small neighborhood of its origin, and a regime where it spreads over a finite fraction of the whole population. Critical exponents are evaluated, and the dependence of the critical randomness with the network connectivity is
doi:10.1103/physreve.64.050901
pmid:11735891
fatcat:fprrgy6fufbj7c2eeynrpjsn34