Abstract
In order to motivate an analogy between the rigidity theory and combinatorial optimization, we have used the cavity method to study the floppy to rigid transition in a 2-dimensional (2D) random graph as well as in a 3D small world chain. Our analytic results are in excellent agreement with numerical studies using the pebble game algorithm. We also illustrate that a transfer matrix method is equivalent to the cavity method at the replica symmetric level.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1057-1071 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Journal of Statistical Physics |
| Volume | 118 |
| Issue number | 5-6 |
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| State | Published - Mar 2005 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Cavity method
- Combinatorial optimization
- Rigidity transition