A Formula of Average Path Length for Unweighted Networks

作     者：LIU Chun-Ping LIU Yu-Rong HE Da-Ren ZHU Lu-Jin 

作者机构：Institute of Mathematics Yangzhou University Yangzhou 225002 China College of Physics Science and Technology Yangzhou University Yangzhou 225002 China 

出 版 物：《Communications in Theoretical Physics》 (理论物理通讯（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2008年第50卷第10期

页      面：1017-1020页

核心收录：

学科分类：07[理学] 070201[理学-理论物理] 0702[理学-物理学] 

基　　金：National Natural Science Foundation of China under the Key Project under Grant Nos.10635040 and 60774073 the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China under Grant No.BK2007075 

主　　题：complex network average path length adjacency matrix 

摘      要：In this paper,based on the adjacency matrix of the network and its powers,the formulas are derived for theshortest path and the average path length,and an effective algorithm is ***,an example is providedto demonstrate the proposed method.