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Scale free topology as an effective feedback system.

Alexander Rivkind^1,2, Hallel Schreier^3,2, Naama Brenner^4,2

¹Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

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|May 12, 2020

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Biological networks with highly connected hubs behave predictably when hubs are modeled as feedback circuits. Outgoing hubs promote convergence, while incoming hubs do not, impacting network dynamics.

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Area of Science:

Complex Systems
Network Science
Dynamical Systems

Background:

Biological networks exhibit heterogeneous connectivity with highly connected hubs.
The impact of this heterogeneity on network dynamics is a key research area.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how network topology, specifically hub structure, influences dynamical properties.
To develop an approximation for analyzing dynamics in scale-free networks.

Main Methods:

Interpreting network topology as a feedback circuit.
Approximating heterogeneous networks by lumping highly connected nodes into a single effective hub.
Analyzing convergence to fixed points in scale-free networks using feedback analysis and mean-field theory.

Main Results:

The feedback circuit approximation accurately preserves convergence statistics in scale-free networks.
Outgoing hubs play an organizing role, driving network convergence, analogous to external drive suppressing chaos.
Incoming hubs do not exhibit this organizing property, leading to distinct network behaviors.

Conclusions:

Network dynamics are significantly influenced by a few outlying hubs rather than the entire connectivity distribution.
The feedback circuit model provides a predictive parametrization of scale-free topology.
A transition between convergent and divergent dynamics can be predicted based on hub characteristics.