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Large complete minors in random subgraphs

Combinatorics 2021-07-01 v2

Abstract

Let GG be a graph of minimum degree at least kk and let GpG_p be the random subgraph of GG obtained by keeping each edge independently with probability pp. We are interested in the size of the largest complete minor that GpG_p contains when p=1+εkp = \frac{1+\varepsilon}{k} with ε>0\varepsilon >0. We show that with high probability GpG_p contains a complete minor of order Ω~(k)\tilde{\Omega}(\sqrt{k}), where the \sim hides a polylogarithmic factor. Furthermore, in the case where the order of GG is also bounded above by a constant multiple of kk, we show that this polylogarithmic term can be removed, giving a tight bound.

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@article{arxiv.2004.02626,
  title  = {Large complete minors in random subgraphs},
  author = {Joshua Erde and Mihyun Kang and Michael Krivelevich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.02626},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

12 pages, small changes in exposition and a simplification of the proof of Lemma 5

R2 v1 2026-06-23T14:40:56.936Z