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Product Measure Approximation of Symmetric Graph Properties

Discrete Mathematics 2015-03-02 v1

Abstract

In the study of random structures we often face a trade-off between realism and tractability, the latter typically enabled by assuming some form of independence. In this work we initiate an effort to bridge this gap by developing tools that allow us to work with independence without assuming it. Let Gn\mathcal{G}_{n} be the set of all graphs on nn vertices and let SS be an arbitrary subset of Gn\mathcal{G}_{n}, e.g., the set of graphs with mm edges. The study of random networks can be seen as the study of properties that are true for most elements of SS, i.e., that are true with high probability for a uniformly random element of SS. With this in mind, we pursue the following question: What are general sufficient conditions for the uniform measure on a set of graphs SGnS \subseteq \mathcal{G}_{n} to be approximable by a product measure?

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@article{arxiv.1502.07787,
  title  = {Product Measure Approximation of Symmetric Graph Properties},
  author = {Dimitris Achlioptas and Paris Siminelakis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.07787},
  year   = {2015}
}

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