AUTHOR=Ausloos Marcel 

TITLE=God (≡ Elohim), The First Small World Network

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physics

VOLUME=Volume 10 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2022.887752

DOI=10.3389/fphy.2022.887752

ISSN=2296-424X

ABSTRACT=In this paper, the  approach of network mapping of words in  literary texts   is extended to ''textual factors'': the network nodes are defined as  ''concepts''; the links are ''community connexions''.  Thereafter, the text network properties  are investigated along  modern statistical physics approaches of networks, thereby relating network topology and algebraic properties, to literary texts contents. As a practical illustration, the first chapter of the Genesis in the Bible is   mapped  into10 node network, as in the kabbalah approach, mentioning God  ($\equiv Elohim$).   The  characteristics a of the network are studied starting from  its adjacency  matrix, and the corresponding Laplacian matrix. Triplets of nodes are   particularly examined in order to emphasize the  ''textual (community) connexions'' of  each   agent "emanation",   through the so called   clustering coefficients   and the  overlap index,  
whence  measuring the ''semantic flow'' between the different nodes.
It is concluded that this  graph is a {\it small-world network},  weakly disassortative, because its average local clustering coefficient  is significantly higher than a random graph constructed on the same vertex set.