networkx.algorithms.communicability_alg.communicability¶
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communicability
(G)[source]¶ Return communicability between all pairs of nodes in G.
The communicability between pairs of nodes in G is the sum of closed walks of different lengths starting at node u and ending at node v.
Parameters: G (graph) Returns: comm – Dictionary of dictionaries keyed by nodes with communicability as the value. Return type: dictionary of dictionaries Raises: NetworkXError
– If the graph is not undirected and simple.See also
communicability_exp()
- Communicability between all pairs of nodes in G using spectral decomposition.
communicability_betweenness_centrality()
- Communicability betweeness centrality for each node in G.
Notes
This algorithm uses a spectral decomposition of the adjacency matrix. Let G=(V,E) be a simple undirected graph. Using the connection between the powers of the adjacency matrix and the number of walks in the graph, the communicability between nodes
u
andv
based on the graph spectrum is [1]\[C(u,v)=\sum_{j=1}^{n}\phi_{j}(u)\phi_{j}(v)e^{\lambda_{j}},\]where
phi_{j}(u)
is theurm{th}
element of thejrm{th}
orthonormal eigenvector of the adjacency matrix associated with the eigenvaluelambda_{j}
.References
[1] Ernesto Estrada, Naomichi Hatano, “Communicability in complex networks”, Phys. Rev. E 77, 036111 (2008). https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.0756 Examples
>>> G = nx.Graph([(0,1),(1,2),(1,5),(5,4),(2,4),(2,3),(4,3),(3,6)]) >>> c = nx.communicability(G)