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Information entropy of classical versus explosive percolation

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  • Tiago Vieira
  • Gandhi Viswanathan
  • Luciano Silva

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We study the Shannon entropy of the cluster size distribution in classical as well as explosive percolation, in order to estimate the uncertainty in the sizes of randomly chosen clusters. At the critical point the cluster size distribution is a power-law, i.e. there are clusters of all sizes, so one expects the information entropy to attain a maximum. As expected, our results show that the entropy attains a maximum at this point for classical percolation. Surprisingly, for explosive percolation the maximum entropy does not match the critical point. Moreover, we show that it is possible to determine the critical point without using the conventional order parameter, just analysing the entropy’s derivatives. Copyright EDP Sciences, SIF, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

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  • Tiago Vieira & Gandhi Viswanathan & Luciano Silva, 2015. "Information entropy of classical versus explosive percolation," The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, Springer;EDP Sciences, vol. 88(9), pages 1-6, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:eurphb:v:88:y:2015:i:9:p:1-6:10.1140/epjb/e2015-60500-0
    DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2015-60500-0
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