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Colouring complete bipartite graphs from random lists

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v1 Probability

Abstract

Let Kn,nK_{n,n} be the complete bipartite graph with nn vertices in each side. For each vertex draw uniformly at random a list of size kk from a base set SS of size s=s(n)s=s(n). In this paper we estimate the asymptotic probability of the existence of a proper colouring from the random lists for all fixed values of kk and growing nn. We show that this property exhibits a sharp threshold for k2k\geq 2 and the location of the threshold is precisely s(n)=2ns(n)=2n for k=2k=2, and approximately s(n)=n2k1ln2s(n)=\frac{n}{2^{k-1}\ln 2} for k3k\geq 3.

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@article{arxiv.math/0512010,
  title  = {Colouring complete bipartite graphs from random lists},
  author = {Michael Krivelevich and Asaf Nachmias},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0512010},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

14 pages. To appear in Random Structures and Algorithms