News Finding: "If one has a large number of relationships, it must mean that they are almost all superficial."
Paper Finding: Therefore, a second, as yet unnoticed, regime is predicted in which the structure is reversed-the more demanding the layers, the more populated they are.
News Context: "It is impossible to have relationships with 150 people and for them all to be intimate," explains co-author Ignacio Tamarit. "If one has a large number of relationships, it must mean that they are almost all superficial." The researchers predicted this effect using a mathematical theory and then found that it held true in actual data gathered on the personal networks of isolated immigrant communities in Spain.
Paper Context: However, in the inverse regime (µ < 0) χ k quickly approaches 1 as k increases, implying that most links are within the innermost circle. Therefore, a second, as yet unnoticed, regime is predicted in which the structure is reversed-the more demanding the layers, the more populated they are. This regime is expected to arise when the ratio S /L is particularly large.