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20242026
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10 papers

math.PR2026

The rank and layer distributions in random recursive trees

Huck Stepanyants, P. L. Krapivsky, Harrison Hartle +1

The distribution of node depths in a network is crucial for analyzing network structure. Two measures, rank and layer, quantify how deep inside a network a node is. The rank is the…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Universal fluctuations of first discoveries in competitive exploration

Arthur Plaud, P. L. Krapivsky, S. Redner +1

Random exploration is usually quantified by how fast new space is found, from the range of a single walker to the territory collectively covered by many walkers. In competitive exp…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Anomalous scaling in redirection networks

Harrison Hartle, P. L. Krapivsky, S. Redner +1

In networks that grow by isotropic redirection (IR), a new node selects an initial target node uniformly at random and attaches to a randomly chosen neighbor of the target. The eme…

physics.soc-ph2026

Self-reinforcing cascades: A spreading model for beliefs or products of varying intensity or quality

Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Juniper Lovato, Giulio Burgio +3

Models of how things spread often assume that transmission mechanisms are fixed over time. However, social contagions--the spread of ideas, beliefs, innovations--can lose or gain i…

physics.soc-ph2025

Finite-time consensus in a compromise process

P. L. Krapivsky, A. Yu. Plakhov

A compromise process describes the evolution of opinions through binary interactions. Opinions are real numbers, and at each step, two randomly selected agents reach a compromise b…

physics.soc-ph2025

Growing unlabeled networks

Harrison Hartle, Brennan Klein, Dmitri Krioukov +1

Models of growing networks are a central topic in network science. In these models, vertices are usually labeled by their arrival time, distinguishing even those node pairs whose s…