The cavity method for the rigidity transition

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1057-1071
Number of pages15
JournalJournal of Statistical Physics
Volume118
Issue number5-6
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2005
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Cavity method
  • Combinatorial optimization
  • Rigidity transition

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