Noise in coevolving networks

© 2015 American Physical Society. Coupling dynamics of the states of the nodes of a network to the dynamics of the network topology leads to generic absorbing and fragmentation transitions. The coevolving voter model is a typical system that exhibits such transitions at some critical rewiring. We study the robustness of these transitions under two distinct ways of introducing noise. Noise affecting all the nodes destroys the absorbing-fragmentation transition, giving rise in finite-size systems to two regimes: bimodal magnetization and dynamic fragmentation. Noise targeting a fraction of nodes preserves the transitions but introduces shattered fragmentation with its characteristic fraction of isolated nodes and one or two giant components. Both the lack of absorbing state for homogeneous noise and the shift in the absorbing transition to higher rewiring for targeted noise are supported by analytical approximations.This work has been supported by the Spanish MINECO and FEDER under projects INTENSE@COSYP (No. FIS2012-30634) and MODASS (No. FIS2011-24785), and by the EU Commission through the project LASAGNE (No. FP7-ICT-318132).Peer Reviewe