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Proofs of inequalities used by Erdos-Renyi in their Random Graphs Paper 1

Please refer to this, it is Erdos-Renyi 1959 paper 1 on Random Graphs. I am currently working on this, but I am stuck on the fifth page, where they use two estimates. More specifically, here's the ...
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Subgraphs of random graphs with a given degree sequence

Let $\mathbf{d}=(d_1,\dots, d_n)$ be a given degree sequence with $3\leq d_i\leq \Delta$ for every $i$, where $\Delta$ is constant. Let $G(n,\mathbf{d})$ denote the random graph uniformly distributed ...
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Threshold function for a graph not being planar

A graph property $\mathcal{P}$ is monotone increasing if $G\in \mathcal{P}$ implies $G+e \in \mathcal{P}$, i.e., adding an edge to a graph does not destroy the property. It is well-known that every ...
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Can we remove the restriction on a parameter in Talagrand concentration inequality?

Recently I am trying to use Talagrand concentration inequality to do something on graphs. I find a version from the book of Molloy and Reed ''Graph Colouring and Probabilistics Method''. I attached a ...
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Is the probability distribution of a graphon given as a graph limit computable?

Let $G_i$ be a sequence of finite graphs that is Cauchy in the space of graphons. That is, for every $\epsilon \in \mathbb Q_+$ there is a $N \in \mathbb N$ such that $$\forall n, m > N. \delta_\...
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Evolution of the empirical mean of a list as we remove elements proportional to their value

Consider a list of $N$ integers $k_1,k_2,\dots k_N$, drawn independently from some distribution $P(k)$ with $k_i \geq 1$. We denote its mean with $\langle k\rangle=\sum_{k=1}kP(k)$. The first two ...
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Finding an easy example applying the general Lovász local lemma

Is there any easy application for the general local lemma as follows? If someone knows, please tell me the references or just post an example here. Thanks. General Lovász local lemma: Consider a set $...
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Nearest neighbors on random complete graph

Consider the complete graph on $2n$ vertices, where the ${2n \choose 2}$ edges have distinct lengths in uniform random order. So each vertex $v$ has a nearest neighbor $N(v)$, across the shortest ...
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Example of random walk in a random environment (RWRE) saying things on the environment

I was wondering if anyone is aware of works/articles/examples where random walks in a random environment (RWRE) are actually used for obtaining information on the random environment. To clarify a bit, ...
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A one-sided/monotone version of min/max-stable distributions -- does this have a name?

In a couple of papers I am working on (in random graph theory) I have encountered the following property of certain probability distributions, which I will describe shortly, and I am wondering if this ...
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Connected components in random regular graphs

Suppose we take a random regular graph $G_{2n, r}$, where $n$ is large. Let us also assume that $r$ is fixed, (not dependent on $n$). Let's say that half of the vertices of the graph are colored black ...
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Diameter of component graph of uniform spanning forests on the amenable transitive graph with super polynomial growth

According to the paper Benjamini, Kesten, Peres, and Schramm - Geometry of the uniform spanning forest: transitions in dimensions 4, 8, 12 (Annals, 2004), the diameter of the component graph of the ...
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Union of two copies of uniform spanning forest on $\mathbb{Z}^3$ is transient? [closed]

Let $G$ be the (random) graph which is the union of two independent copies of the uniform spanning forest on $\mathbb{Z}^3$. Question: Is (the simple random walk on) $G$ transient almost surely?
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Probability of Generating a Connected Graph

$N$ points are generated randomly within a unit square, with a uniform distribution. What is the probability that the points form a connected graph, given that two points are connected if the distance ...
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Vertex degree on random graphs

Let $p = d/n$ with $d$ constant. How do I prove that, with high probability, $G_{n,p}$ contains a vertex of degree at least $(\log n)^{1/2}$, where $G_{n,p}$ is a graph with $n$ vertices and the ...
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Quasi-random vs pseudo-random graphs

My question is somehow concerning terminology on extremal graph theory. Is there any difference concerning the notion of quasi-random graph and the notion of pseudo-random graph? My feeling is that ...
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Limit of alternating sum of factorial moments which diverge

Consider the non-negative, integer valued random variable $X$, and its $i^{\text{th}}$ factorial moment $E_{i}[X]$. Then we have that $$ P(X=0) = \sum _{i=0}^{\infty} \frac{(-1)^i E_{r}[X]}{ i!} $$ ...
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Concavity of expected size of a maximum matching (in a bipartite graph) w.r.t. edge probability

Given a n*n bipartite graph where each edge (between any two nodes on the opposite side) is formed i.i.d. with probability $p$, can we show a concavity result on the expected size of a maximum ...
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What is the exact definition of a sharp transition?

In "Sharp threshold phenomena in statistical physics", H. Duminil-Copin, Japanese J. of Math. 14, 2019, a sharp transition of a boolean function is defined as follows: A sequence of ...
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Likelihood ratio of non-trivial cycles in an inhomogeneous random square lattice graph embedded on a toroidal surface

Consider a square lattice (random) graph $G$ embedded on a toroidal surface. Each edge $(i, j)$ of the graph has an associated likelihood probability $p_{ij}$. The probabilities $p_{ij}$ come from a ...
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What to do when the second moment method does not provide a sufficient bound for $P(X=0)$

We have that for a real valued random variable $X$, $$ P(X=0) \leq \frac{\text{Var}(X)}{\left(\mathbb{E}(X)\right)^2} $$ known as Chebyshev's inequality. Consider a random variable $X \in \{0,1,2,\...
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Hamilton cycles in random graphs with just enough connectivity

What is the asymptotic probability that $G$ has a Hamilton cycle if $G$ is a random $n$ vertex $\frac{4}{3}n$ edge graph, with minimum degree 2 and without degree 2 vertices at distance 1 or 2 to each ...
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Width of the critical window in a random graph

In an Erdős–Rényi random graph $G(n,p)$, the giant component emerges with thresholding function $p(n) = c/n$, where $c>1$. When $c=1$, and $\lambda \in \mathbb{R}$, we can write or "...
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Discrepancy of random bipartite graphs (2)

This question is a modification of the one asked here, which turned out to ask for something too strong to be true. Given $k>0$ and a positive integer $n$, let $X, Y$ be two vertex sets of size $n$ ...
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Discrepancy of random bipartite graphs

This is a crosspost from MathStackExchange (original question). Fix $k>0$ and let $X, Y$ be two vertex sets of size $n$ a positive integer (we're interested in the limit $n\to \infty$). Define a ...
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Vertex connectivity of random graphs?

Consider simple, undirected Erdős–Rényi graphs $G(n,p)$, where $n$ is the number of vertices and $p$ is the probability for each pair of vertices to form an edge. Many properties of these graphs are ...
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(Asymmetric) matrix power series in closed form: $\sum_{i=0}^{\infty} A^i \left(A^i\right)^{\top}={?}$

Let $A\in \mathbb{S}^{N\times N}$ be a symmetric, real and stable matrix, i.e., $\rho(A)<1$, where $\rho(A)$ stands for the spectral radius of $A$. Then, $$\sum\limits_{i=0}^{\infty} A^{2i}=\left( ...
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Which infinite random graphs with percolation threshold $p_c=0$ are transient?

I am interested in long-range percolation models with heavy-tailed degree distributions such as DHH13, GLM21, Y6. The simplest example is scale-free percolation in which vertices are elements $\mathbb{...
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Probability of an edge in a random graph

Consider a vertex set $V$ and a degree sequence $(d_v)_{v\in V}$. I want to know the probability that an edge exists between two given vertices $u$ and $v$ in a random graph with this degree sequence. ...
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Hammersley-Clifford theorem

The paper spatial interaction and the statistical analysis of lattice systems by Besag (1974) presents an alternative proof for the Hammersley-Clifford theorem. In order to prove the HM theorem, Besag ...
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Is a random $(r+1,r)$-biregular bipartite graph $r$-edge connected w.h.p?

A uniformly random $r$-regular bipartite graph on $n$ vertices is known to be $r$-edge connected. That is, with high probability as $n$ grows large, the minimum size of a cut in a random $r$-regular ...
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how to compute the probability that a random graph has two components? [closed]

This question is an example in the book Introduction to Probability Models 11th edition (Sheldon M.Ross). 3.6.2 A random graph: A graph has $V$ nodes and a set $A$ of pairs of nodes in $V$ called arcs....
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Connectivity of the Erdős–Rényi random graph

It is well-known that if $\omega=\omega(n)$ is any function such that $\omega \to \infty$ as $n \to \infty$, and if $p \ge (\log{n}+\omega) / n$ then the Erdős–Rényi random graph $G(n,p)$ is ...
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Canonical representation of the a probability distribution for Hammersley Clifford Theorem

I'm reading the following paper http://www2.stat.duke.edu/~scs/Courses/Stat376/Papers/GibbsFieldEst/BesagJRSSB1974.pdf On page 7 they give the result that $$Q(\textbf{x}) = \sum_{1 \leq i \leq n} ...
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Empirical degree distribution of random $n$ vertices labeled rooted tree converges to Poisson distribution

I am reading Louigi's lecture note on random trees and graphs here. I get stuck on part (b), Exercise 1.2.3 on page 19, which says the following: Let $T_n$ be uniformly drawn from $\mathcal{T}_n$, ...
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Graphs resembling the math genealogy graph must have concentration in a small number of families?

I was talking with a non-mathematician the other week at a workshop about the fact that many mathematicians, like myself, are indexed in the math genealogy database. We talked a little about how many ...
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Longest close common subsequence but for continuous random variables

We have two copied sequences of correlated continuous positive random variables that are independent of each other $(X_{n})\perp(Y_{n})$ and equal in distribution $X_{n}\stackrel{dis}{=}Y_{n}$ for ...
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Contiguity of uniform random regular graphs and uniform random regular graphs which have a perfect matching

Let us consider $\cal{G}_{_{n,d}}$ as the uniform probability space of d-regular graphs on the n vertices $\{1, \ldots, n \}$ (where $dn$ is even). We say that an event $H_{_{n}}$ occurs a.a.s. (...
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Bound on $i$th largest eigenvalue in a large Erdos-Renyi graphs

Typical magnitude of $i$th largest eigenvalue of an Erdos-Renyi random graph seems to decay at least exponentially with $i$. Is there an analytic expression for the constant in the exponent, or a nice ...
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Does exponential degree distribution entail Log-normal distance distribution in large complex graphs?

We've been exploring the graph structure of a large genealogical data base (WikiTree) of which main connected component contains about 23 million nodes. The graph edges are defined by any direct ...
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Probabilistic bound to the number of edge disjoint triangles in a random graph

Let $G$ be a random graph with $n$ vertices, and let $\delta(G)$ be the maximum number of triangles in $G$. Question. How to prove the bound $$P(\delta(G)) \leq m - t \sqrt{f(m)}) \leq 2e^{-t^2 / 4}$...
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Cycle statistics of random endomorphism

Let $S$ be a set with $n$ elements and let $f:S\to S$ be a random function, chosen uniformly among the $n^n$ possibilities. Considering $f$ as a directed graph of constant outdegree $1$, i. e. with ...
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Random graphs and Benjamini-Schramm convergence

I am looking for literature on the question whether a randomly chosen sequence of $k$-regular graphs converges in the Benjamini-Schramm sense to the universal covering with probability one. There are ...
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How to define probability over graphs?

How can one formally define a random graph variable? If G is a random graph variable, then any finite graph is a realization of G. Formally a r.v maps the set of outcomes to a measurable space (may be ...
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Random subgraph properties

Consider a graph $G$ of $N$ vertices and $M$ edges, and assume $G$ has typical complex network properties: it is not necessarily connected, but it has a high clustering coefficient and a giant ...
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What nodes of a graph should be vaccinated first?

Consider a graph, choose some "p: 0<p<1" (probability to infect the neighbor node). Choose some random number "K" of nodes which are "infected" initially. So we ...
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Reference request - random regular graphs vs random graphs w/ degree sequence

There are some properties that are easily studied for random d-regular graphs, but that are very hard to extend to random graphs with a given degree sequence (e.g. whether a graph is w.h.p. ...
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Graph with path of length $\geq n$ along grid diagonals - a known result in graph theory?

Is the following lemma a well known result in graph theory? I am studying a basic existence result that appears to be simple yet powerful. I have not seen it stated as an important result in graph ...
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Probability in Chromatic number upper bound of induced subgraph

Let $G=(V, E)$ be a graph with chromatic number $\chi(G)=1000 .$ Let $U \subset V$ be a random subset of $V$ chosen uniformly from among all $2^{|V|}$ subsets of $V$. Let $H=G[U]$ be the induced ...
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Critical probability for Erdos-Renyi digraphs to be strongly connected

Given $p \in [0,1]$, an Erdos-Renyi graph ${ER}(n,p)$ on $n$ vertices is constructed by defining, for each unordered couple of distinct vertices ${i,j}$ an edge between $i$ and $j$ with probability $p$...