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On a conjecture of Godsil concerning controllable random graphs

Optimization and Control 2016-06-14 v2 Probability

Abstract

It is conjectured by Godsil that the relative number of controllable graphs compared to the total number of simple graphs on n vertices approaches one as n tends to infinity. We prove that this conjecture is true. More generally, our methods show that the linear system formed from the pair (W, b) is controllable for a large class of Wigner random matrices W and deterministic vectors b. The proof relies on recent advances in Littlewood-Offord theory developed by Rudelson and Vershynin.

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@article{arxiv.1511.05080,
  title  = {On a conjecture of Godsil concerning controllable random graphs},
  author = {Sean O'Rourke and Behrouz Touri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.05080},
  year   = {2016}
}

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32 pages; minor update

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