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Inequalities in the classic proof of perfect matching in Erdős–Rényi graph

I am checking the classic paper by Erdős and Rényi, "On the existence of a factor of degree one of a connected random graph" with the link here. I am curious about the computation of the ...
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Does Forcing conjecture equals to assume the host graph is regular?

Given two graphs $H$ and $G$, the homomorphism density $t(H, G)$ is defined as the proportion of mappings from the vertices of $H$ to the vertices of $G$ that preserve adjacency. Formally, $$ t(H, ...
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Another version of Sidorenko's conjecture(?)

I would like to ask a question about Sidorenko's conjecture. Here is the background of my question: Quasi-random graphs A sequence of graphs $(G_n)$ is called quasi-random if it satisfies certain ...
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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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Positive-semidefiniteness of Laplacian of signed graph

Consider a signed complete graph $G(E,V)$ with adjacency $A_{ij}\in\{-1,+1\}$. Define the Laplacian matrix as $L:=D-A$ where $D$ is the degree matrix, $D_{ii}=\sum_{j\neq 1}A_{ij}$. my question. If $\...
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Average number of cycles in a directed regular graph?

A directed random regular graph is a graph where all vertices have exactly $d_{\rm in}$ edges going in and $d_{\rm out}$ going out. If the graph is undirected, i.e. all vertices have degree $d$, then ...
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Does "epsilon-regular" equal to "cut distance less than epsilon"?

Let $G$ be a bipartite graph (vertex number sufficient large) with bipartition $(U,W)$ and edge density $d$. Does these two statement equal? $G$ is $\varepsilon$-regular, i.e. $\big|e_G(X,Y)-d|X||Y|\...
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Szemeredi Regularity Lemma - Reasonable Bounds

Recently, I came across the wonderful Szemeredi regularity lemma and I was wondering. Are these "natural/reasonable/standard" examples of random graphs families, for which the number of $\...
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Locally "unshortable" paths in graphs

Setup: Consider a connected graph G, with diameter "d". Informally: Trivially (by definition of diameter), taking any path $P$ any nodes $P(i) , P(i+k)$ for $k>d$ can be connected by a ...
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Smallest dominating set

Given a graph $G$, we say $S$ is a dominating set if $S\cup \{N(x):x\in S\}=V(G)$. Let $d(n,k)$ be the smallest integer $s$ so that every $n$-vertex graph $G$ with minimum degree $k$ has some ...
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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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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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A question related to contiguity of random regular graphs

I am looking for a reference for the following fact. Let $r\geq 3$ be constant, let $G(n,r-2)$ be a random (simple) $(r-2)$-regular graph and let $H(n)$ be an independent random Hamiltonian cycle (on ...
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Graphon convergence of uniform weighted graphs

I have a question that I need at some point my research. Suppose that the upper-triangular entries of an $n\times n$ symmetric matrix $A$ are i.i.d. Uniform$(0,1)$. Does the weighted graph with ...
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Probability of the random graph on $2n$ vertices having exactly $n$ vertices with degree $\ge n$

Let $G = (V, E)$ be a uniform random graph on $2n$ labeled vertices and let $S \subseteq {V}$ be the set of vertices with degree $\ge n$. Then what happens to $\mathbf{P}(|S|=n)$ as $n \to \infty$? ...
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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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What is this Ramsey problem?

Given positive integers, $n,m,r$, define $R((n,m);r)$ to be the least $N$ such that for any $r$-coloring $C:E(K_N)\to \{1,\dots,r\}$, there is some monochromatic subgraph with $n$ vertices and $m$ ...
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Probability of (single) connecting paths in Erdos-Renyi graphs

In an Erdos-Renyi graph with labeled vertices in $(1, ..., N)$, and for any pair of vertices $(r, s)$ with $r < s$ and a length $l$ in $(1, ..., s-r)$, I am looking for the probability of there ...
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Lower bound on the number of balanced graphs

Let $\alpha>1$ be a constant and define $B_n$ as the number of (labeled) balanced graphs with $n$ vertices and $\left\lceil \alpha n\right\rceil $ edges. The paper Strongly Balanced Graphs and ...
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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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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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The most pseudorandom subgraph of a dense graph

A bipartite graph $(A,B)$ is $(p, \beta)$-jumbled if for all subsets $A'\subseteq A$ and $B'\subseteq B$ we have that $\left|\mathrm{E}(A',B')-p|A'||B'|\right|\leq \beta \sqrt{|A'||B'|}$. A easy ...
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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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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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Random graph - probability threshold for any linear size set to contain a fixed clique

Let $t\geq 3$ and $0<\varepsilon<1$ be fixed. Denote by $K_t$ the clique on $t$ vertices, and by $G_{n,p}$ the binomial random graph. Question: Is the threshold for the probability that "...
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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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Random graphs defined by a set of tiles

Related to this question, which I asked at MSE, I'd like to ask this one here: Consider a (large) graph $G$ and its multi-set of tiles $T$, i.e. the multi-set of its vertex-induced subgraphs, i.e. the ...
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Eigenvalue bounds of a random graph with a clique

I'm looking into this paper and having some problems proving (ii) of proposition 2.1. I don't quite understand how the lemma is proved. I also read the original paper where the lemma comes from but ...
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Generating a random graph with bounds on degree and diameter

What would be a way to generate a random simple graph with diameter lesser than a given number, and in which there are given lower and upper bounds (bounds being uniform across vertices) on the degree ...
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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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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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Is there a good algebraic model of random n-hypergraphs?

Suppose $F$ is a finite field and $-1$ is a square in $F$. Let $E$ be the binary relation on $F$ where $(a,b) \in E$ iff $a - b$ is a square. Then $(F,E)$ is called a Paley graph. Paley graphs are ...
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Sources of information on algorithms for finding Hamiltonian cycles (Pósa)

I research various algorithms in complex networks and I am quite new in this field. I am currently focusing on random geometric graphs - Pósa's algorithm for finding a hamiltonian cycle. Can you ...
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Additional examples of classes of networks whose Hasse diagram of the poset is a perfect graph

This question is very important for my research, which is why I ask it here. I do not have a formal background in graph theory so please excuse me if I state a term incorrectly (and feel free to ...
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Expansion of random subgraphs of a bi-regular bipartite graph

Let $G = (L, R, E)$ be a bi-regular bipartite graph, with $|L|=n$ and $|R| = C \cdot n$, where $C$ is a large constant. Let $d$ be its (constant) right-degree. We know $G$ is a good spectral expander. ...
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making a random uniform hypergraph linear

Let $\mathcal{H}_{n,p,h}=(V,E)$ be a random $h$-uniform hypergraph on $[n]$, sampled according to the usual binomial distribution. We known that with high probability, the number of edges in $\mathcal{...
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Hyper-degree sequences: How to count them and how to construct hyper-graphs from them?

From an answer to this question I have learned how to ask this question properly. Consider a $k$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ nodes, i.e. a family of $k$-subsets of $[n]= \{1,2,\dots,n\}$ (the hyperedges)...
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Two kinds of generating functions

Sorry for a possibly off-the-topic question, but I am afraid to gain the necessary overview to give an answer (supposed the question is not ill-posed) is beyond my capabilities. In the course of ...
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Degree sequences after vertex removals

Consider a graph $G=(V, E)$ with $|V|=n$ vertices. Let $(v_1, \dots, v_n)$ be an ordered list of its vertices. Let $G_i=G[\{v_{i+1}, \dots, v_n\}]$ be the induced subgraph on the last $n-i$ vertices. ...
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Issue UPDATE: in graph theory, different definitions of edge crossing numbers - impact on applications?

QUICK FINAL UPDATE: Just wanted to thank you MO users for all your support. Special thanks for the fast answers, I've accepted first one, appreciated the clarity it gave me. I've updated my torus ...
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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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Relation between expected values of eigenvalues of Laplacian matrix of a graph and eigenvalues of expected Laplacian matrix of that graph?

Particularly, I am dealing with Erdős–Rényi random 𝐺(𝑛,𝑝), so the expected Laplacian matrix of 𝐺(𝑛,𝑝) is 𝑝(𝐽𝑛−𝐼𝑛), where 𝐽𝑛 and 𝐼𝑛 are one and identity matrices, respectively. In ...
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Count shortest path with different lengths in random graph

Let $G(n,p)$ be an Erdos-Renyi random graph on $n$ vertices with probability $p$, i.e. for each pair of vertices, they are connected directly by an undirected edge with probability $p$. Suppose we are ...
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4-cycles vs eigenvalue information on quasi-random graphs

My (philosophical) question arises from reading the wonderful paper of Chung-Graham-Wilson where the authors introduces the notion of quasi-random graphs. The main purpose of the paper is to show ...
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Size of minimum cut in random graph

Consider a uniform random tournament with $n$ vertices. (Between any two vertices $x,y$, with probability $0.5$ draw an edge from $x$ to $y$; otherwise draw an edge from $y$ to $x$.) The score of each ...
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Largest component and number of components of random mappings with bounded in-degree

Let $S$ be a finite set of size $n$ and consider all functions $f$ from $S$ to itself, such that the preimage $f^{-1} (k)$ obeys $0 \leq |f^{-1} (k)| \leq m$. Let $F$ be chosen uniformly at random ...
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Probability of a subset of Bernoulli's being all 1's

Suppose we have $n$ iid Bernoulli's $X_1,\ldots,X_n$ with mean $p$, and a family $\mathcal{F}$ of subsets of $[n]$. The question is how to lower bound the probability that there is a set in the family ...
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Zero-One law for Hamiltonian path subgraphs of Hamming Distance Graphs?

$(\alpha,\beta,d)$-Hamming Distance Graph $G_d(\alpha,\beta)$ for $\alpha,\beta\in(0,1]$ is a graph on $2^d$ vertices $v_0,\dots,v_{2^d-1}$ with edges $(v_i,v_j)\in\mathcal E(G_d)$ iff $0<\sum_{t=1}...
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Model for random graphs where clique number remains bounded

In the Erdös-Rényi model for random graphs,the clique number is seen to go to infinity as the number of vertices grows. Is anyone aware of models for random graphs with bounded clique number?
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Asymptotic formula for the number of connected graphs

It can be shown that the set of graphs with $N$ vertices $G_N$ has cardinality: \begin{equation} \lvert G_N \rvert = 2^{N \choose 2} \tag{1} \end{equation} Recently, I wondered how much bigger $\...
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