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  • Transitions in loopy random graphs with fixed degrees and arbitrary degree distributions

    Graph theory

    FAACA. Coolen Arxiv

    Transitions in loopy graphs

    The generation of large graphs with a controllable number of short loops paves the way for building more realistic random networks.

  • Dessins d’enfants, Seiberg-Witten curves and conformal blocks

    String theory

    OFYHY. HeJRYXFY Journal of High Energy Physics

    QFT and kids’ drawings

    Groethendieck's “children’s drawings”, a type of bipartite graph, link number theory, geometry, and the physics of conformal field theory.

  • Memristive networks: from graph theory to statistical physics

    Neurocomputing

    AZA. ZegaracFCF. Caravelli EPL

    Memristive networks

    A simple solvable model of memristive networks suggests a correspondence between the asymptotic states of memristors and the Ising model.

  • Eigenvalues of subgraphs of the cube

    Graph theory

    BBB. BollobásJLSL European Journal of Combinatorics

    Hypercube eigenvalues

    Hamming balls, subgraphs of the hypercube, maximise the graph’s largest eigenvalue exactly when the dimension of the cube is large enough.

  • Graph theory

    Journal of Physics A

    Exactly solvable random graphs

    An explicit analytical solution reproduces the main features of random graph ensembles with many short cycles under strict degree constraints.

  • Neurocomputing

    Physical Review E

    Dynamics of memristors

    Exact equations of motion provide an analytical description of the evolution and relaxation properties of complex memristive circuits.

  • Graph theory

    Physical Review E

    Spectral partitioning

    The spectral density of graph ensembles provides an exact solution to the graph partitioning problem and helps detect community structure.

  • Complex networks

    Physical Review E

    Democracy in networks

    Analysis of the hyperbolicity of real-world networks distinguishes between those which are aristocratic and those which are democratic.

  • Combinatorics, Graph theory

    Forum of Mathematics, Sigma

    Erdős-Ko-Rado theorem analogue

    A random analogue of the Erdős-Ko-Rado theorem sheds light on its stability in an area of parameter space which has not yet been explored.

  • Percolation theory

    SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics

    Maximum percolation time

    A simple formula gives the maximum time for an n x n grid to become entirely infected having undergone a bootstrap percolation process.

  • Network theory

    Physical Review Letters

    Easily repairable networks

    When networks come under attack, a repairable architecture is superior to, and globally distinct from, an architecture that is robust.

  • Percolation theory

    Electronic Journal of Probability

    Percolation on Galton-Watson trees

    The critical probability for bootstrap percolation, a process which mimics the spread of an infection in a graph, is bounded for Galton-Watson trees.

  • Network theory

    Social Informatics

    Scales in weighted networks

    Information theory fixes weighted networks’ degeneracy issues with a generalisation of binary graphs and an optimal scale of link intensities.

  • Graph theory

    Physical Review E

    Unbiased randomization

    Unbiased randomisation processes generate sophisticated synthetic networks for modelling and testing the properties of real-world networks.

  • Graph theory

    Journal of Physics A

    Tailored random graph ensembles

    New mathematical tools quantify the topological structure of large directed networks which describe how genes interact within a cell.