PageRank of integers

Klaus M. Frahm (1, 2) , A. D. Chepelianskii (3) , Dima Shepelyansky (1)

1 ICQ - Cohérence Quantique (LPT)
2 LPT - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique
3 Cavendish Laboratory

We build up a directed network tracing links from a given integer to its divisors and analyze the properties of the Google matrix of this network. The PageRank vector of this matrix is computed numerically and it is shown that its probability is inversely proportional to the PageRank index thus being similar to the Zipf law and the dependence established for the World Wide Web. The spectrum of the Google matrix of integers is characterized by a large gap and a relatively small number of nonzero eigenvalues. A simple semi-analytical expression for the PageRank of integers is derived that allows to find this vector for matrices of billion size. This network provides a new PageRank order of integers.

Mots clés: Google matrix; integers; primes; directed networks

Domaines: Recherche d'information [cs.IR]; Théorie des nombres [math.NT]; Dynamique Chaotique [nlin.CD]; Mécanique statistique [cond-mat.stat-mech]

Klaus M. Frahm, A. D. Chepelianskii, Dima Shepelyansky. PageRank of integers. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 2012, 45, pp.405101. ⟨10.1088/1751-8113/45/40/405101⟩. ⟨hal-00702462⟩