Complex hypergraphs

Phys Rev E. 2023 Feb;107(2-1):024316. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.107.024316.

Abstract

Providing an abstract representation of natural and human complex structures is a challenging problem. Accounting for the system heterogenous components while allowing for analytical tractability is a difficult balance. Here I introduce complex hypergraphs (chygraphs), bringing together concepts from hypergraphs, multilayer networks, simplicial complexes, and hyperstructures. To illustrate the applicability of this combinatorial structure I calculate the component sizes statistics and identify the transition to a giant component. To this end I introduce a vectorization technique that tackles the multilevel nature of chygraphs. I conclude that chygraphs are a unifying representation of complex systems allowing for analytical insight.