Communicability and multipartite structures in complex networks at negative absolute temperatures

Ernesto Estrada, Desmond J. Higham, and Naomichi Hatano
Phys. Rev. E 78, 026102 – Published 8 August 2008

Abstract

We here present a method of clearly identifying multipartite subgraphs in a network. The method is based on a recently introduced concept of the communicability, which very clearly identifies communities in a complex network. We here show that, while the communicability at a positive temperature is useful in identifying communities, the communicability at a negative temperature is useful in identifying multipartite subgraphs; the latter quantity between two nodes is positive when the two nodes belong to the same subgraph and is negative when they do not. The method is able to discover “almost” multipartite structures, where intercommunity connections vastly outweigh intracommunity connections. We illustrate the relevance of this work to real-life food web and protein-protein interaction networks.

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  • Received 16 April 2008

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.78.026102

©2008 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Ernesto Estrada1,3,*, Desmond J. Higham2, and Naomichi Hatano3

  • 1Institute of Complexity Science, Department of Physics and Department of Mathematics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XH, United Kingdom
  • 2Department of Mathematics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XH, United Kingdom
  • 3Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro 153-8505, Japan

  • *Corresponding author. estrada66@yahoo.com

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Vol. 78, Iss. 2 — August 2008

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