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Reciprocal relation between the fractal and the small-world properties of complex networks
1Department of Applied Physics, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8628, Japan. fk-1985@eng.hokudai.ac.jp
Abstract:
The fractal and the small-world properties of complex networks are systematically studied both in the box-covering (BC) and the cluster-growing (CG) measurements. We elucidate that complex networks possessing the fractal (small-world) nature in the BC measurement are always fractal (small world) even in the CG measurement and vice versa, while the fractal dimensions d{B} by the BC measurement and d{C} by the CG measurement are generally different. This implies that two structural properties of networks, fractality and small worldness, cannot coexist in the same length scale. These properties can, however, crossover from one to the other by varying the length scale. We show that the crossover behavior in a network near the percolation transition appears both in the BC and CG measurements and is scaled by a unique characteristic length ξ.
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