Application To Extensiveness of Power Law Potential
One application using the above definition of dimension was to the extensiveness of statistical mechanics systems with a power law potential where the interaction varies with the distance as . In one dimension the system properties like the free energy do not behave extensively when, i.e., they increase faster than N as, where N is the number of spins in the system.
Consider the Ising model with the Hamiltonian (with N spins)
where are the spin variables, is the distance between node and node, and are the couplings between the spins. When the have the behaviour, we have the power law potential. For a general complex network the condition on the exponent which preserves extensivity of the Hamiltonian was studied. At zero temperature, the energy per spin is proportional to
and hence extensivity requires that be finite. For a general complex network is proportional to the Riemann zeta function . Thus, for the potential to be extensive, one requires
Other processes which have been studied are self-avoiding random walks, and the scaling of the mean path length with the network size. These studies lead to the interesting result that the dimension transitions sharply as the shortcut probability increases from zero. The sharp transition in the dimension has been explained in terms of the combinatorially large number of available paths for points separated by distances large compared to 1.
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