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Homework 3: Ph.D. Course On Network Dynamics
Homework 3: Ph.D. Course On Network Dynamics
Homework 3: Ph.D. Course On Network Dynamics
Homework 3
2. Assume (or, better, prove) that ni (t)/t converges to some i 0 for all
i 1. Find equations that relate the i .
3. Show that i /i+1 converges to 1 as i grows large, and that the i s
correspond to a power law.
Exercise 5 (Hoeffding-Azuma inequality). Let M0 , M1 , . . . , Mt be a martingale such that
|Mi Mi1 | ci ,
i = 1, . . . , t .
(1)
1. prove that, for c 0
ex
sinh(c)
x + cosh(c) ,
c
x [c, c] ;
z R ;
c2i /2) ;
1it
5. conclude that
P(Mt M0 ) exp(2 /(2
1it
c2i )) ,
0 ,
p)(p
+
/3)
1in
References
[1] M. Mitzenmacher, A brief history of generative models for power law and
lognormal distributions, Internet Mathematics 1 (2004), no. 2, 226251.
[2] M. E. J. Newman, Networks: an introduction, Oxford University Press,
2010.