Korniss, G.Hastings, M.Bassler, K.Berryman, M.Kozma, B.Abbott, D.2007-01-152007-01-152006Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics, 2006; 350(5-6):324-3300375-96011873-2429http://hdl.handle.net/2440/22818We study the effective resistance of small-world resistor networks. Utilizing recent analytic results for the propagator of the Edwards–Wilkinson process on small-world networks, we obtain the asymptotic behavior of the disorder-averaged two-point resistance in the large system-size limit. We find that the small-world structure suppresses large network resistances: both the average resistance and its standard deviation approaches a finite value in the large system-size limit for any non-zero density of random links. We also consider a scenario where the link conductance decays as a power of the length of the random links, l−α. In this case we find that the average effective system resistance diverges for any non-zero value of α.enCopyright status unknownsmall-world modelresistor networksscalingJournal article002006028910.1016/j.physleta.2005.09.0810002350979000032-s2.0-3114447239253092Abbott, D. [0000-0002-0945-2674]