Scaling in a general class of critical random Boolean networks

dc.creatorMihaljev, Tamara
dc.creatorDrossel, Barbara
dc.date2006-06-23
dc.date2008-07-02
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:47:53Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:47:53Z
dc.descriptionWe derive analytically the scaling behavior in the thermodynamic limit of the number of nonfrozen and relevant nodes in the most general class of critical Kauffman networks for any number of inputs per node, and for any choice of the probability distribution for the Boolean functions. By defining and analyzing a stochastic process that determines the frozen core we can prove that the mean number of nonfrozen nodes in any critical network with more than one input per node scales with the network size $N$ as $N^{2/3}$, with only $N^{1/3}$ nonfrozen nodes having two nonfrozen inputs and the number of nonfrozen nodes with more than two inputs being finite in the thermodynamic limit. Using these results we can conclude that the mean number of relevant nodes increases for large $N$ as $N^{1/3}$, with only a finite number of relevant nodes having two relevant inputs, and a vanishing fraction of nodes having more than three of them. It follows that all relevant components apart from a finite number are simple loops, and that the mean number and length of attractors increases faster than any power law with network size.
dc.description11 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0606612
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0606612
dc.identifierPhys. Rev. E 74, 046101 (2006)
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevE.74.046101
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/164009
dc.subjectDisordered Systems and Neural Networks
dc.subjectStatistical Mechanics
dc.titleScaling in a general class of critical random Boolean networks
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