Efficiency dynamics on scale-free networks with tunable degree exponent

Abstract

A model, introduced earlier for the dynamics of a generic efficiency measure in a population of agents by Majumdar and Krapivsky (Phys. Rev. E 63, 054101 (2001)), is investigated on scale-free networks whose degree distribution follows a power law with the tunable exponent γ. The model shows a delocalization transition from a stagnant phase to a growing one when decreasing the degree exponent γ of scale-free networks. By taking into account the specific dynamical properties of the model and the geometrical properties of scale-free networks, we predict the appearance of this critical transition. This work is useful for understanding these kinds of transitions occurring in many dynamical processes on scale-free networks.