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The largest component in a subcritical random graph with a power law degree distribution

Probability 2008-08-21 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

It is shown that in a subcritical random graph with given vertex degrees satisfying a power law degree distribution with exponent γ>3\gamma>3, the largest component is of order n1/(γ1)n^{1/(\gamma-1)}. More precisely, the order of the largest component is approximatively given by a simple constant times the largest vertex degree. These results are extended to several other random graph models with power law degree distributions. This proves a conjecture by Durrett.

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@article{arxiv.0708.4404,
  title  = {The largest component in a subcritical random graph with a power law degree distribution},
  author = {Svante Janson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.4404},
  year   = {2008}
}

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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/07-AAP490 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)

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