Figure 6. Targeted rewirings verify the degree profile of nodes involved in topological traps.

Rewirings are applied separately to two complementary sets of nodes in the PGP network, namely those ones connected to at least one other node of higher degree (panel A) and all the rest, i.e. those ones with a degree equal or larger than that of any of their neighbors (panel B). In both panels thick lines correspond to the extreme cases: The original PGP network (black) and a network where all the nodes that satisfy the condition were rewired (green). Thin lines represent different intermediate cases defined by the degree of the nodes affected by the rewirings (see legends). We observe that coordination failures are strongly prevented in A but only slightly in B, supporting our claim that the former set of nodes are the ones involved in the reported phenomenon. See Methods for more details on the randomization procedures.