Abstract
Many real-world networks depend on other networks, often in non-trivial ways,
to keep their functionality. These interdependent "networks of networks" are
often extremely fragile. When a fraction \$1-p\$ of nodes in one network randomly
fail, the damage propagates to nodes in networks that are interdependent and a
dynamic cascade of failure occurs that affects the entire system. We present
novel dynamic equations for two interdependent networks that allow us to
reproduce the cascades of failure for an arbitrary pattern of interdependency.
We study the "rich club" effect found in many real interdependent network
systems in which the high-degree nodes are extremely interdependent,
correlating a fraction \$\alpha\$ of the higher degree nodes on each network. We
find a rich phase diagram in the plane \$p-\alpha\$, with a tricritical point
reminiscent of the tricritical point of liquids that separates a non-functional
phase from two functional phases.
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