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On anti-stochastic properties of unlabeled graphs

Discrete Mathematics 2023-04-11 v4 Cryptography and Security Combinatorics Probability

Abstract

We study vulnerability of a uniformly distributed random graph to an attack by an adversary who aims for a global change of the distribution while being able to make only a local change in the graph. We call a graph property AA anti-stochastic if the probability that a random graph GG satisfies AA is small but, with high probability, there is a small perturbation transforming GG into a graph satisfying AA. While for labeled graphs such properties are easy to obtain from binary covering codes, the existence of anti-stochastic properties for unlabeled graphs is not so evident. If an admissible perturbation is either the addition or the deletion of one edge, we exhibit an anti-stochastic property that is satisfied by a random unlabeled graph of order nn with probability (2+o(1))/n2(2+o(1))/n^2, which is as small as possible. We also express another anti-stochastic property in terms of the degree sequence of a graph. This property has probability (2+o(1))/(nlnn)(2+o(1))/(n\ln n), which is optimal up to factor of 2.

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@article{arxiv.2112.04395,
  title  = {On anti-stochastic properties of unlabeled graphs},
  author = {Sergei Kiselev and Andrey Kupavskii and Oleg Verbitsky and Maksim Zhukovskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.04395},
  year   = {2023}
}