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Majority dynamics on sparse random graphs

Combinatorics 2024-02-09 v1 Probability

Abstract

Majority dynamics on a graph GG is a deterministic process such that every vertex updates its ±1\pm 1-assignment according to the majority assignment on its neighbor simultaneously at each step. Benjamini, Chan, O'Donnel, Tamuz and Tan conjectured that, in the Erd\H{o}s--R\'enyi random graph G(n,p)G(n,p), the random initial ±1\pm 1-assignment converges to a 99%99\%-agreement with high probability whenever p=ω(1/n)p=\omega(1/n). This conjecture was first confirmed for pλn1/2p\geq\lambda n^{-1/2} for a large constant λ\lambda by Fountoulakis, Kang and Makai. Although this result has been reproved recently by Tran and Vu and by Berkowitz and Devlin, it was unknown whether the conjecture holds for p<λn1/2p< \lambda n^{-1/2}. We break this Ω(n1/2)\Omega(n^{-1/2})-barrier by proving the conjecture for sparser random graphs G(n,p)G(n,p), where λn3/5lognpλn1/2\lambda' n^{-3/5}\log n \leq p \leq \lambda n^{-1/2} with a large constant λ>0\lambda'>0.

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@article{arxiv.2105.12709,
  title  = {Majority dynamics on sparse random graphs},
  author = {Debsoumya Chakraborti and Jeong Han Kim and Joonkyung Lee and Tuan Tran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.12709},
  year   = {2024}
}

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