Abstract
We first present a comprehensive review of various Markov metrics used in the literature and express them in a consistent framework. We then introduce the fundamental tensor – a generalization of the well-known fundamental matrix – and show that classical Markov metrics can be derived from it in a unified manner. We provide a collection of useful relations for Markov metrics that are useful and insightful for network studies. To demonstrate the usefulness and efficacy of the proposed fundamental tensor in network analysis, we present four important applications: 1) unification of network centrality measures, 2) characterization of (generalized) network articulation points, 3) identification of network's most influential nodes, and 4) fast computation of network reachability after failures.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 126-158 |
| Number of pages | 33 |
| Journal | Linear Algebra and Its Applications |
| Volume | 564 |
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| State | Published - Mar 1 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The research was supported in part by US DoD DTRA grants HDTRA1-09-1-0050 and HDTRA1-14-1-0040 , and ARO MURI Award W911NF-12-1-0385 . We would also like to thank our colleagues, Amir Asiaei and Arindam Banerjee, who helped us with the results reported in Section 7 .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Inc.
Keywords
- Articulation points
- Centrality measures
- Fundamental tensor
- Influence maximization
- Markov chain
- Network analysis
- Network reachability
- Random walk