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Preferential attachment networks are a type of random network where new nodes are connected to existing ones at random, and are more likely to connect to those that already have many connections. We investigate further a family of models introduced by Antunovi{c}, Mossel and R{a}cz where each vertex in a preferential attachment graph is assigned a type, based on the types of its neighbours. Instances of this type of process where the proportions of each type present do not converge over time seem to be rare. Previous work found that a rock-paper-scissors setup where each new nodes type was determined by a rock-paper-scissors contest between its two neighbours does not converge. Here, two cases similar to that are considered, one which is like the above but with an arbitrarily small chance of picking a random type and one where there are four neighbours which perform a knockout tournament to determine the new type. These two new setups, despite seeming very similar to the rock-paper-scissors model, do in fact converge, perhaps surprisingly.
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We consider the preferential attachment model with multiple vertex types introduced by Antunovic, Mossel and Racz. We give an example with three types, based on the game of rock-paper-scissors, where the proportions of vertices of the different types almost surely do not converge to a limit, giving a counterexample to a conjecture of Antunovic, Mossel and Racz. We also consider another family of examples where we show that the conjecture does hold.
We extend the work of Antunovi{c}, Mossel and R{a}cz on competing types in preferential attachment models to include cases where the types have different fitnesses, which may be either multiplicative or additive. We will show that, depending on the values of the parameters of the models, there are different possible limiting behaviours depending on the zeros of a certain function. In particular we will show the existence of choices of the parameters where one type is favoured both by having higher fitness and by the type attachment mechanism, but the other type has a positive probability of dominating the network in the limit.
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We study an evolving spatial network in which sequentially arriving vertices are joined to existing vertices at random according to a rule that combines preference according to degree with preference according to spatial proximity. We investigate phase transitions in graph structure as the relative weighting of these two components of the attachment rule is varied. Previous work of one of the authors showed that when the geometric component is weak, the limiting degree sequence of the resulting graph coincides with that of the standard Barabasi--Albert preferential attachment model. We show that at the other extreme, in the case of a sufficiently strong geometric component, the limiting degree sequence coincides with that of a purely geometric model, the on-line nearest-neighbour graph, which is of interest in its own right and for which we prove some extensions of known results. We also show the presence of an intermediate regime, in which the behaviour differs significantly from both the on-line nearest-neighbour graph and the Barabasi--Albert model; in this regime, we obtain a stretched exponential upper bound on the degree sequence. Our results lend some mathematical support to simulation studies of Manna and Sen, while proving that the power law to stretched exponential phase transition occurs at a different point from the one conjectured by those authors.
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