Scaling laws for diffusion on (trans)fractal scale-free networks

Abstract

Fractal (or transfractal) features are common in real-life networks and are known to influence the dynamic processes taking place in the network itself. Here we consider a class of scale-free deterministic networks, called (u, v)-flowers, whose topological properties can be controlled by tuning the parameters u and v; in particular, for u > 1, they are fractals endowed with a fractal dimension d f , while for u = 1, they are transfractal endowed with a transfractal dimension df . In this work we investigate dynamic processes (i.e., random walks) and topological properties (i.e., the Laplacian spectrum) and we show that, under proper conditions, the same scalings (ruled by the related dimensions), emerge for both fractal and transfractal.