Limit laws for component-pruned sparse random graphs and percolated tori
Abstract
We prove an zero-one law for a very sparse Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graph after pruning by component order. Let , where , and delete every component of order less than , where . If then the resulting graph satisfies a zero-one law for , with quantification over sets of vertices and sets of edges. The proof combines uniform component counts, an MSO Feferman-Vaught decomposition for disjoint unions, and semilinearity of the order spectra of MSO-definable classes of finite trees. We also show that the term cannot simply be omitted: star components can occur at first-order-visible Poisson thresholds. We further establish first-order limit laws for bond percolation on the discrete torus . In the two-sided subpolynomial regime, pruning below a sufficiently slow threshold yields a zero-one law. For the unpruned model in either one-sided polynomial regime, the reciprocal exponents are precisely the critical scales. At such a scale, an extended limit of or equal to or gives a zero-one law; a positive finite limit gives a convergence law but not a zero-one law; and the absence of an extended limit gives failure of convergence. Finally, already detects the parity of the torus side length through bipartiteness, producing a natural obstruction to monadic convergence in a near-deterministic regime.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2607.11033,
title = {Limit laws for component-pruned sparse random graphs and percolated tori},
author = {Mostafa Mirabi and Saharon Shelah},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.11033},
year = {2026}
}
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26 pages