A [[master equation]] can express the behaviour of an undirected growing network where, at each time step, a new node is added to the network, linked to an old node (randomly chosen and without preference). The initial network is formed by two nodes and two links between them at time <math>t = 2</math>, this configuration is necessary only to simplify further calculations, so at time <math>t = n</math> the network have <math>n</math> nodes and <math>n</math> links.
: <math>p(k,s,t+1) = \frac 1 t p(k-1,s,t) + \left(1 - \frac 1 t \right)p(k,s,t),</math>
: <math>p(k,s,t+1) = \frac 1 t p(k-1,s,t) + \left(1 - \frac 1 t \right)p(k,s,t),</math>
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where <math>p(k,s,t)</math> is the probability to have the node <math>s</math> with degree <math>k</math> at time <math>t+1</math>, and <math>s</math> is the time step when this node was added to the network. Note that there are only two ways for an old node <math>s</math> to have <math>k</math> links at time <math>t+1</math>:
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其中 <math>p(k,s,t)</math> 是 <math>t+1</math>时刻节点<math>s</math>的度为<math>k</math>的概率,<math>s</math>是这个时间步长内新添加到网络中的节点。is the probability to have the node <math>s</math> with degree <math>k</math> at time <math>t+1</math>, and <math>s</math> is the time step when this node was added to the network. Note that there are only two ways for an old node <math>s</math> to have <math>k</math> links at time <math>t+1</math>:
* The node <math>s</math> have degree <math>k-1</math> at time <math>t</math> and will be linked by the new node with probability <math>1/t</math>
* The node <math>s</math> have degree <math>k-1</math> at time <math>t</math> and will be linked by the new node with probability <math>1/t</math>