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Networks and Their Boundaries

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Boundaries of a Complex World

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The idea for the topic in this chapter came from the following question: what is the shape of the Internet? Or, more generally, does a very large network have a boundary, and if so, how can we define it? There is definite interest in the literature for these questions.

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Correspondence to Andrei Ludu .

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Ludu, A. (2022). Networks and Their Boundaries. In: Boundaries of a Complex World. Springer Series in Synergetics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07361-8_7

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