Human Sexual Contact Network as a Bipartite Graph

Preprint

28 January 2002

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/0111323

Abstract

A simple model to encapsulate the essential growth properties of \emph{the web of human sexual contacts} is presented. In the model only heterosexual connection is considered and represented by a random growing bipartite graph where both male-female contact networks grow simultaneously. The time evolution of the model is analysed by a rate equation approach leading to confirm that male and female sexual contact distributions decay as power laws with exponents depending on influx and charisma of the sexes.

Keywords

EVOLUTION OF THE MODEL
HUMAN SEXUAL CONTACTS
BIPARTITE GRAPH
CONTACT NETWORK
SEXUAL CONTACT
GRAPH

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Published version: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 308 (1-4), 483.

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