Colour ratio in Prim's ranking of bipartite graphs
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2026-01-23 v1 Combinatorics
Abstract
We consider a complete bipartite graph of size endowed with i.i.d. uniform edge weights and run Prim's Algorithm to obtain a ranking of its vertices. Let be the proportion of black vertices among the first vertices in this ranking. We characterise the limit behaviour of as both and tend to infinity. Our results show that in general the limit of , when existing, differs from the overall proportion of the black vertices in the graph.
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@article{arxiv.2601.15520,
title = {Colour ratio in Prim's ranking of bipartite graphs},
author = {Félix Kahane and Minmin Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.15520},
year = {2026}
}
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