Multiscale network renormalization: Scale-invariance without geometry

Elena Garuccio

doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.043101

Multiscale network renormalization: Scale-invariance without geometry

2023-10-31

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DOI：10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.043101

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Systems with lattice geometry can be renormalized exploiting their coordinates in metric space, which naturally define the coarse-grained nodes. By contrast, complex networks defy the usual techniques, due to their small-world character and lack of explicit geometric embedding. Current network renormalization approaches require strong assumptions (e.g., community structure, hyperbolicity, scale-free topology), thus remaining incompatible with generic graphs and ordinary lattices. Here we introduce a graph renormalization scheme valid for any hierarchy of heterogeneous coarse-grainings, thereby allowing for the definition of block-nodes across multiple scales. This approach identifies a class of scale-invariant networks characterized by a necessary and specific dependence on additive hidden variables attached to nodes, plus optional dyadic factors. If the hidden variables are annealed, they lead to realistic scale-free networks with assortativity and finite local clustering, even in the sparse regime and in the absence of geometry. If they are quenched, they can guide the renormalization of real-world networks with node attributes and distance-dependence or communities. As an application, we derive an accurate multiscale model of the International Trade Network applicable across arbitrary geographic partitions. These results highlight a deep conceptual distinction between scale-free and scale-invariant networks, and they provide a geometry-free route to renormalization.

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