Dense network motifs enhance dynamical stability

• Main Authors: Gross, Bnaya, Havlin, Shlomo, Barzel, Baruch
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 24-04-2023
• Subjects: Physics - Physics and Society
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2304.12044

Network motifs are the building blocks of complex networks and are
significantly involved in the network dynamics such as information processing
and local operations in the brain, biological marks for drug targets,
identifying and predicting protein complexes in PPI networks, as well as echo
chambers in social networks. Here we show that dense motifs such as cliques
have different stable states than the network itself. These stable states
enhance the dynamical stability of the network and can even turn local stable
states into global ones. Moreover, we show how cliques create polarization
phenomena and global opinion changes.