English

Convergence law for hyper-graphs with prescribed degree sequences

Logic in Computer Science 2015-05-08 v3

Abstract

We view hyper-graphs as incidence graphs, i.e. bipartite graphs with a set of nodes representing vertices and a set of nodes representing hyper-edges, with two nodes being adjacent if the corresponding vertex belongs to the corresponding hyper-edge. It defines a random hyper-multigraph specified by two distributions, one for the degrees of the vertices, and one for the sizes of the hyper-edges. We develop the logical analysis of this framework and first prove a convergence law for first-order logic, then characterise the limit first-order theories defined by a wide class of degree distributions. Convergence laws of other models follow, and in particular for the classical Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graphs and kk-uniform hyper-graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1501.07429,
  title  = {Convergence law for hyper-graphs with prescribed degree sequences},
  author = {Nans Lefebvre},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.07429},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages, 6 figures

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