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      Scaling and percolation in the small-world network model.

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          In this paper we study the small-world network model of Watts and Strogatz, which mimics some aspects of the structure of networks of social interactions. We argue that there is one nontrivial length-scale in the model, analogous to the correlation length in other systems, which is well-defined in the limit of infinite system size and which diverges continuously as the randomness in the network tends to zero, giving a normal critical point in this limit. This length-scale governs the crossover from large- to small-world behavior in the model, as well as the number of vertices in a neighborhood of given radius on the network. We derive the value of the single critical exponent controlling behavior in the critical region and the finite size scaling form for the average vertex-vertex distance on the network, and, using series expansion and Padé approximants, find an approximate analytic form for the scaling function. We calculate the effective dimension of small-world graphs and show that this dimension varies as a function of the length-scale on which it is measured, in a manner reminiscent of multifractals. We also study the problem of site percolation on small-world networks as a simple model of disease propagation, and derive an approximate expression for the percolation probability at which a giant component of connected vertices first forms (in epidemiological terms, the point at which an epidemic occurs). The typical cluster radius satisfies the expected finite size scaling form with a cluster size exponent close to that for a random graph. All our analytic results are confirmed by extensive numerical simulations of the model.

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          Journal
          Phys Rev E Stat Phys Plasmas Fluids Relat Interdiscip Topics
          Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics
          1063-651X
          1063-651X
          Dec 1999
          : 60
          : 6 Pt B
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, USA.
          Article
          10.1103/PhysRevE.60.7332
          11970678
          4a11ac7b-e00c-40ba-871c-a7eb41b2cad7
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