{
  "id": "cond-mat/0304314",
  "version": "v3",
  "published": "2003-04-14T15:10:40.000Z",
  "updated": "2003-10-29T10:09:09.000Z",
  "title": "Comment on: 'Universal Behavior of Load Distribution in Scale-free Networks'",
  "authors": [
    "Marc Barthelemy"
  ],
  "comment": "1 page, 2 figures, shortened version for PRL",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 189803 (2003)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.189803",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.dis-nn",
    "cond-mat.stat-mech"
  ],
  "abstract": "In a previous Letter (cond-mat/0106565), Goh et al have presented a numerical study of the load--or betweenness centrality--distribution in a scale-free network whose degree distribution follows a power law with a tunable exponent $\\gamma$. They showed that the load $\\ell$ is distributed according to a power-law with exponent $\\delta$. The authors claimed that $\\delta$ is universal, ie. independent of the exponent $\\gamma$. In this comment, we use two different ways of checking numerically this universality and we show that it does not hold.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v3",
      "updated": "2003-10-29T10:09:09.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "scale-free network",
      "load distribution",
      "universal behavior",
      "load-or betweenness centrality-distribution",
      "power law"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett."
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 1,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}