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We generalize the Poissonian evolving random graph model of M. Bauer and D. Bernard (2003), to deal with arbitrary degree distributions. The motivation comes from biological networks, which are well-known to exhibit non Poissonian degree distributions. A node is added at each time step and is connected to the rest of the graph by oriented edges emerging from older nodes. This leads to a statistical asymmetry between incoming and outgoing edges. The law for the number of new edges at each time step is fixed but arbitrary. Thermodynamical behavior is expected when this law has a large time limit. Although (by construction) the incoming degree distributions depend on this law, this is not the case for most qualitative features concerning the size distribution of connected components, as long as the law has a finite variance. As the variance grows above 1/4, the average being < 1/2, a giant component emerges, which connects a finite fraction of the vertices. Below this threshold, the distribution of component sizes decreases algebraically with a continuously varying exponent. The transition is of infinite order, in sharp contrast with the case of static graphs. The local-in-time profiles for the components of finite size allow to give a refined description of the system.
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Received: 20 December 2003, Published online: 15 October 2003
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02.10.Ox Combinatorics; graph theory - 02.50.-r Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics - 64.60.Ak Renormalization-group, fractal, and percolation studies of phase transitions
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Coulomb, S., Bauer, M. Asymmetric evolving random networks. Eur. Phys. J. B 35, 377–389 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2003-00290-4
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2003-00290-4