Abstract
We study the influence of the seed graph in the preferential attachment model, focusing on the case of trees. We first show that the seed has no effect from a weak local limit point of view. On the other hand, we conjecture that different seeds lead to different distributions of limiting trees from a total variation point of view. We take a first step in proving this conjecture by showing that seeds with different degree profiles lead to different limiting distributions for the (appropriately normalized) maximum degree, implying that such seeds lead to different (in total variation) limiting trees.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 7024931 |
Pages (from-to) | 30-39 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering |
Volume | 2 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2015 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Computer Science Applications
- Computer Networks and Communications
Keywords
- Random trees
- preferential attachment
- seed graph