English

Graph decomposition and parity

Combinatorics 2015-02-03 v3

Abstract

Motivated by a recent extension of the zero-one law by Kolaitis and Kopparty, we study the distribution of the number of copies of a fixed disconnected graph in the random graph G(n,p)G(n,p). We use an idea of graph decompositions to give a sufficient condition for this distribution to tend to uniform modulo qq. We determine the asymptotic distribution of all fixed two-component graphs in G(n,p)G(n,p) for all qq, and we give infinite families of many-component graphs with a uniform asymptotic distribution for all qq. We also prove a negative result, that no simple proof of uniform asymptotic distribution for arbitrary graphs exists.

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@article{arxiv.1211.2243,
  title  = {Graph decomposition and parity},
  author = {Bobby DeMarco and Amanda Redlich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.2243},
  year   = {2015}
}

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13 pages

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