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Scott D Pauls1, Daniel Remondini
1Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA. scott.d.pauls@dartmouth.edu
Abstract:
We introduce a family of new centralities, the k-spectral centralities. k-spectral centrality is a measurement of importance with respect to the deformation of the graph Laplacian associated with the graph. Due to this connection, k-spectral centralities have various interpretations in terms of spectrally determined information. We explore this centrality in the context of several examples. While for sparse unweighted networks 1-spectral centrality behaves similarly to other standard centralities, for dense weighted networks they show different properties. In summary, the k-spectral centralities provide a novel and useful measurement of relevance (for single network elements as well as whole subnetworks) distinct from other known measures.
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