On irreversible spread of influence in edge-weighted graphs

Abstract: Various kinds of spread of influence occur in real world social and virtual networks. These phenomena are formulated by activation processes and irreversible dynamic monopolies in combinatorial graphs representing the topology of the networks. In most cases the nature of influence is weighted and the spread of influence depends on the weight of edges. The ordinary formulation and results for dynamic monopolies do not work for such models. In this paper we present a graph theoretical analysis for spread of weighted influence and mention a real world example realizing the activation model with weighted influence. Then we obtain some extremal bounds and algorithmic results for activation process and dynamic monopolies in directed and undirected graphs with weighted edges.