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Speeding up non-Markovian First Passage Percolation with a few extra edges (1708.09652v1)

Published 31 Aug 2017 in math.PR, cs.SI, math.CO, and physics.soc-ph

Abstract: One model of real-life spreading processes is First Passage Percolation (also called SI model) on random graphs. Social interactions often follow bursty patterns, which are usually modelled with i.i.d.~heavy-tailed passage times on edges. On the other hand, random graphs are often locally tree-like, and spreading on trees with leaves might be very slow, because of bottleneck edges with huge passage times. Here we consider the SI model with passage times following a power law distribution $\mathbb{P}(\xi>t)\sim t{-\alpha}$, with infinite mean. For any finite connected graph $G$ with a root $s$, we find the largest number of vertices $\kappa(G,s)$ that are infected in finite expected time, and prove that for every $k \leq \kappa(G,s)$, the expected time to infect $k$ vertices is at most $O(k{1/\alpha})$. Then, we show that adding a single edge from $s$ to a random vertex in a random tree $\mathcal{T}$ typically increases $\kappa(\mathcal{T},s)$ from a bounded variable to a fraction of the size of $\mathcal{T}$, thus severely accelerating the process. We examine this acceleration effect on some natural models of random graphs: critical Galton-Watson trees conditioned to be large, uniform spanning trees of the complete graph, and on the largest cluster of near-critical Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graphs. In particular, at the upper end of the critical window, the process is already much faster than exactly at criticality.

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Authors (2)
  1. Alexey Medvedev (5 papers)
  2. Gábor Pete (23 papers)

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