1. The localization of non-backtracking centrality in networks and its physical consequences
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Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Claudio Castellano, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. SIMCON - First-principles approaches to condensed matter physics: quantum effects and complexity
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FOS: Computer and information sciences ,Physics - Physics and Society ,Critical phenomena (Physics) ,Computer science ,Science ,Complex networks ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) ,01 natural sciences ,Article ,localization ,010305 fluids & plasmas ,Matrix (mathematics) ,percolation ,0103 physical sciences ,Statistical physics ,010306 general physics ,Eigenvalues and eigenvectors ,Social and Information Networks (cs.SI) ,Multidisciplinary ,Percolation (cognitive psychology) ,Física [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC] ,Heuristic ,Node (networking) ,Community structure ,Percolation threshold ,Computer Science - Social and Information Networks ,Nonlinear phenomena ,Complex network ,Phase transitions and critical phenomena ,networks ,Medicine ,Fenòmens crítics (Física) ,nonbacktracking matrix ,Centrality - Abstract
The spectrum of the non-backtracking matrix plays a crucial role in determining various structural and dynamical properties of networked systems, ranging from the threshold in bond percolation and non-recurrent epidemic processes, to community structure, to node importance. Here we calculate the largest eigenvalue of the non-backtracking matrix and the associated non-backtracking centrality for uncorrelated random networks, finding expressions in excellent agreement with numerical results. We show however that the same formulas do not work well for many real-world networks. We identify the mechanism responsible for this violation in the localization of the non-backtracking centrality on network subgraphs whose formation is highly unlikely in uncorrelated networks, but rather common in real-world structures. Exploiting this knowledge we present an heuristic generalized formula for the largest eigenvalue, which is remarkably accurate for all networks of a large empirical dataset. We show that this newly uncovered localization phenomenon allows to understand the failure of the message-passing prediction for the percolation threshold in many real-world structures.
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- 2020
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