They act like "eigenvectors" in the merit network space. Of course, the definition of eigenvectors in mathematics is more strict but here I am a little bit abusing the terminology to share the concept.
You are abusing the mathematics quite a bit, not "a little bit". But you are really close to the mathematically correct approach, which is
It has been a great pleasure to read your post. References: [1] completely casual reference to theymos . I don't think we want to go into non-linear statistics.