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The study of probability distributions over graphs. For example, the Erdős–Rényi model where each edge occurs independently with equal probability.

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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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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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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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Chaining random graph thresholds

I've found myself needing to prove a certain graph theoretic property has a probabilistic threshold in the Erdos-Renyi model. The problem is that this property is not edge monotone in general. It is, ...
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Chinese restaurant process with constant joining probabilities

I am looking for a variant of a Chinese restaurant process (CRP) close to the following. The $n+1$'th customer joins an existing table of size $b$ with probability $bp$ for some parameter $p$ and ...
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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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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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Constructing random graphs with given eigenvalues and eigenvectors

In Linial's presentation on SOME PROBLEMS AND RESULTS IN THE GEOMETRY OF GRAPHS, on slide 7, some relations of properties of graphs to the eigenvalues of their adjacency matrix are listed, e.g. if $G$...
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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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Expected number of nodes not involved in a cycle

Consider a random directed graph with $n$ nodes. Each node has on average $x$ number of incoming edges. How many nodes are not part of a cycle? Alternatively phrased, how many strongly connected ...
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Gamma and Poisson distributions and their relations to the randomness

I'm reading the following paper: https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/32/1/122/1743683 and in Figure 3 (Section 4.4) the authors have shown some vertex degree distributions: enter image ...
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Are directed graphs with out-degree exactly 2 strongly connected with probability 1?

Consider a directed graph with out-degree exactly two with $n$ vertices $v_1, v_2 \cdots v_n$ that is constructed as follows: For each vertex $v_i$, one chooses uniformly at random two (not ...
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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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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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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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Random graphs with prescibed degrees and triangles

In short: a random graph model generates (multi-)graphs with prescribed number of edges and minimal number of triangles for each vertex. Questions arise about the actual number of triangles and the ...
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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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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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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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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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Expected number of edges in the neighborhood of vertices in random graphs

Question: given a vertex $v$ of a symmetric random graph $G$ without self loops and parallel edges, what is the expected number edges in the subgraph induced by the vertices $u\in G\setminus v:\ (u,v)...
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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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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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Diameters of random bipartite graphs

Given two partite sets of vertices $U$ and $V$ of size $n$. Each vertex in $U$ uniformly randomly selects $K$ ($K$ is a constant and $K\ll n$) vertices in $V$ without replacement and connects a ...
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Do Fagin's zero-one laws hold on stochastic block model?

Let $n$ be a positive integer (the number of vertices), $k$ be a positive integer (the number of communities), $p = (p_1, . . . , p_k)$ be a probability vector on $[k] := \{1, . . . , k\}$ (the prior ...
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How random are random spanning trees?

Suppose you take a $G(n,p)$ random graph for a fixed probability $p$ and find a spanning tree using Kruskal's algorithm. If you now repeat this process indefinitely, will every tree on $n$ vertices ...
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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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Erdős–Rényi random graphs — reproducing 2 inequalities

In Erdős and Renyi's 1959 paper On random graphs I , I'm trying to reproduce, starting from Eq.\eqref{1} in their paper, the two inequalities that appear in Eq.\eqref{2}. Eq.\eqref{1} is: $$ P \le \...
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Controlling quantity related to Laplacian pseudo-inverse of Erdős–Rényi graph

Consider an $n$-node undirected graph $G = (V, E)$ equipped with weights $W$. Let $L$ be the weighted graph Laplacian matrix, i.e. $L_{ij} = -W_{(i,j)}$ for $(i,j)\in E$ and $L_{ii} = \sum_{j:(i,j)\in ...
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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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Benjamini-Schramm convergence: convergence on metric balls implies weak convergence?

In the famous paper by Benjamini-Schramm 2001, they consider the space of rooted graphs with uniformly bounded degrees, this space modulo rooted graph isomorphism is denoted by $\mathcal X$. This ...
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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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Random graphs constructed by many large matchings

Let $G_{n,d}$ be $d$-regular random graph. We know that for $d \geq 3$, $G \in G_{n,d}$ a.a.s. has a $1$-factorisation when $n$ is even. So, the resulting graph that obtained from randomly choosing $d$...
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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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Random graph uniformly sample from the special graphs

We know two basic random graph models:$G(n,p)$ and $G(n,m)$. $G(n,m)$ consists of all graphs with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, in which the graphs have the same probability. We know that $G(n,p)$ and $...
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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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Minimum induced subtree cover number of a graph

For an arbitrary simple finite graph $G$, without multiple edges between any two nodes and without any loop, the minimum induced subtree cover number, which is denoted by $stc(G)$, is defined to be ...
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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 randomly finding a loop in a (directed) Bernoulli random graph

This problem is inspired by an activity at work, where each person was tasked with introducing another person in the onboarding class, sequentially. Problem Statement Given $N$ people. For each pair ...
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Growing random trees on a lattice $\rightarrow$ Voronoi diagrams

Imagine growing trees from $k$ seeds on a square $n \times n$ region of $\mathbb{Z}^2$. At each step, a unit-length edge $e$ between two points of $\mathbb{Z}^2$ is added. The edge $e$ is chosen ...
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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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Generate random graphs that satisfy the triangle inequality

I would like to generate random graphs that might be geometric graphs in some (unknown) dimension. So I would like every triangle in the graph to satisfy the triangle inequality on its (random) edge ...
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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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