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Color-avoiding percolation on the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph

Probability 2024-12-04 v4 Combinatorics

Abstract

We consider a recently introduced model of color-avoiding percolation defined as follows. Every edge in a graph GG is colored in some of k2k\ge 2 colors. Two vertices uu and vv in GG are said to be CA-connected if uu and vv may be connected using any subset of k1k-1 colors. CA-connectivity defines an equivalence relation on the vertex set of GG whose classes are called CA-components. We study the component structure of a randomly colored Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph of constant average degree. We distinguish three regimes for the size of the largest component: a supercritical regime, a so-called intermediate regime, and a subcritical regime, in which the largest CA-component has respectively linear, logarithmic, and bounded size. Interestingly, in the subcritical regime, the bound is deterministic and given by the number of colors.

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@article{arxiv.2211.16086,
  title  = {Color-avoiding percolation on the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph},
  author = {Lyuben Lichev and Bruno Schapira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.16086},
  year   = {2024}
}

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