2012/07/31 by Sergio Gomez, Albert Diaz-Guilera, Jesus Gomez-Gardeñes +3 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · Computer Science · #physics.soc-ph #cond-mat.stat-mech #cs.SI
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.110.028701
published as Physical Review Letters 110 (2013) 028701 · 6 Pages including supplemental material. To appear in Physical Review Letters
arxiv created 2012/12/03 · arxiv updated 2013/01/09
We study the time scales associated to diffusion processes that take place on multiplex networks, i.e. on a set of networks linked through interconnected layers. To this end, we propose the construction of a supra-Laplacian matrix, which consists of a dimensional lifting of the Laplacian matrix of each layer of the multiplex network. We use perturbative analysis to reveal analytically the structure of eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the complete network in terms of the spectral properties of the individual layers. The spectrum of the supra-Laplacian allows us to understand the physics of diffusion-like processes on top of multiplex networks.