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Any fully graphic region of degree sequences can be sampled rapidly

Combinatorics 2025-11-18 v1

Abstract

Let n>c1c2n>c_1\ge c_2 and Σ\Sigma be positive integers with nc1Σnc2.n\cdot c_1\ge \Sigma \ge n\cdot c_2. Let \mD=\ddsnΣc1c2\mD=\dds{n}{\Sigma}{c_1}{c_2} denote the set of all degree sequences of length nn with the even sum Σ\Sigma and satisfying c1dic2.c_1\ge d_i\ge c_2. We show that if all degree sequences in \mD\mD are graphic, then \mD\mD is 3n133n^{13}-stable. (The concept of PP-stability was introduced by Jerrum and Sinclair in 1990.) In particular, this implies that the switch Markov-chain mixes rapidly on all such degree sequences. In this paper we also study the inverse direction. We show the following: if all graphic sequences of a degree sequence region satisfy the p(n)p(n)-stability condition then the overwhelming majority of the sequences in the region is graphic. This answers affirmatively a question raised in the paper \DOI{10.1016/j.aam.2024.102805}.

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@article{arxiv.2511.13564,
  title  = {Any fully graphic region of degree sequences can be sampled rapidly},
  author = {Péter L. Erdős and Gábor Lippner and Na'ama Nevo and Lajos Soukup},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.13564},
  year   = {2025}
}

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21 pages, 7 figures