Effect of money heterogeneity on resource dependency n complex networks

Exchange of resources among individual components of a system is fundamental to systems like a social network of humans and a network of cities and villages. For various reasons, the human society has come up with the notion of money as a proxy for the resources. Here we extend the model of resource dependencies in networks that was recently proposed by one of us, by incorporating the concept of money so that the vertices of a network can sell and buy required resources among themselves. We simulate the model using the configuration model as a substrate for homogeneous as well as heterogeneous degree distributions and using various exchange strategies. We show that a moderate amount of initial heterogeneity in the money on the vertices can significantly improve the survivability of Scale-free networks but not that of homogeneous networks like the Erdos-Renyi network. Our work is a step towards understanding the effect of presence of money on the resource distribution dynamics in complex networks. Copyright (C) 2022 EPLA

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The exchange of resources in systems such as social networks and networks of cities and villages plays a crucial role in understanding the dynamics of resource distribution in complex networks. Introducing the concept of money in the network significantly improves the survivability of scale-free networks.