Properties of attractors of canalyzing random Boolean networks
1Institut für Festkörperphysik, TU Darmstadt, Hochschulstrasse 6, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany.
Abstract:
We study critical random Boolean networks with two inputs per node that contain only canalyzing functions. We present a phenomenological theory that explains how a frozen core of nodes that are frozen on all attractors arises. This theory leads to an intuitive understanding of the system's dynamics as it demonstrates the analogy between standard random Boolean networks and networks with canalyzing functions only. It reproduces correctly the scaling of the number of nonfrozen nodes with system size. We then investigate numerically attractor lengths and numbers, and explain the findings in terms of the properties of relevant components. In particular we show that canalyzing networks can contain very long attractors, albeit they occur less often than in standard networks.
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