Complex Graphs and Networks

✍ Scribed by Linyuan Lu Fan Chung

• Publisher: American Mathematical Society
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 274
• Series: CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics; 107
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Through examples of large complex graphs in realistic networks, research in graph theory has been forging ahead into exciting new directions. Graph theory has emerged as a primary tool for detecting numerous hidden structures in various information networks, including Internet graphs, social networks, biological networks, or, more generally, any graph representing relations in massive data sets. How will we explain from first principles the universal and ubiquitous coherence in the structure of these realistic but complex networks? In order to analyze these large sparse graphs, we use combinatorial, probabilistic, and spectral methods, as well as new and improved tools to analyze these networks. The examples of these networks have led us to focus on new, general, and powerful ways to look at graph theory. The book, based on lectures given at the CBMS Workshop on the Combinatorics of Large Sparse Graphs, presents new perspectives in graph theory and helps to contribute to a sound scientific foundation for our understanding of discrete networks that permeate this information age.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Graph Theory in the Information Age
Chapter 2. Old and New Concentration Inequalities
Chapter 3. A Generative Model — the Preferential Attachment Scheme
Chapter 4. Duplication Models for Biological Networks
Chapter 5. Random Graphs with Given Expected Degrees
Chapter 6. The Rise of the Giant Component
Chapter 7. Average Distance and the Diameter
Chapter 8. Eigenvalues of the Adjacency Matrix of G(w)
Chapter 9. The Semi-Circle Law for G(w)
Chapter 10. Coupling On-line and Off-line Analyses of Random Graphs
Chapter 11. The Configuration Model for Power Law Graphs
Chapter 12. The Small World Phenomenon in Hybrid Graphs
Bibliography
Index