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One-body theory for amplified signal response in a scale-free network
Takeo Kondo1, Zonghua Liu, Toyonori Munakata
1Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan.
Abstract:
It has recently been shown that amplified signal response is possible in scale-free networks of two-state signaling devices [J. A. Acebron, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 128701 (2007)]. In the analysis of dynamics in networks, much emphasis is put on the hub, and consequently the applicability thereof is limited to a region of small coupling strength. In this paper, we develop a one-body theory which predicts (1) the behavior of the gain in the whole coupling strength region, and (2) the degree of the unit, which shows maximum response, as a function of the coupling strength. In order to achieve good agreement with numerical experiments effects of finite system size are taken into account when the coupling strength becomes very small and the degree kL of the maximum response unit, predicted by our theory, becomes larger than the maximum degree kmax available to a concrete finite network.
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