Exact scaling properties of a hierarchical network model.
We report on the exact results for the degree K, the diameter D, the clustering coefficient C, and the betweenness centrality B of a hierarchical network model with a replication factor M. Such quantities are calculated exactly with the help of recursion relations. Using the results, we show that (i). the degree distribution follows a power law P(K) approximately K-gamma with gamma=1+ln M/ln(M-1), (ii). the diameter grows logarithmically as D approximately ln N with the number of nodes N, (iii). the clustering coefficient of each node is inversely proportional to its degree, C proportional, variant 1/K, and the average clustering coefficient is nonzero in the infinite N limit, and (iv). the betweenness centrality distribution follows a power law P(B) approximately B-2. We discuss a classification scheme of scale-free networks into the universality class with the clustering property and the betweenness centrality distribution.
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Jae Dong
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Theoretische Physik, Universität des Saarlandes, 66041, Saarbrücken, Germany.