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Connections in randomly oriented graphs

Probability 2017-09-07 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

Given an undirected graph GG, let us randomly orient GG by tossing independent (possibly biased) coins, one for each edge of GG. Writing aba\rightarrow b for the event that there exists a directed path from a vertex aa to a vertex bb in such a random orientation, we prove that P(sasb)P(sa)P(sb)\mathbb{P}(s\rightarrow a \cap s\rightarrow b) \ge \mathbb{P}(s\rightarrow a) \mathbb{P}(s\rightarrow b) for any three vertices ss, aa and bb of GG.

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@article{arxiv.1609.01003,
  title  = {Connections in randomly oriented graphs},
  author = {Bhargav Narayanan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.01003},
  year   = {2017}
}

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6 pages, Combinatorics, Probability and Computing