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The number of realisations of a random graph

Combinatorics 2026-05-19 v1

Abstract

Determining the number of realisations of a graph for a specific choice of edge lengths is a fundamental problem in discrete geometry. In this article we prove that the dd-dimensional realisation number of an Erd\H{o}s-Renyi random graph is either infinity or a power of 2 with exponent computable in polynomial time. We also determine a similar formula for the number of complex solutions to the generic rank-dd PSD matrix completion problem with randomly-selected non-diagonal unknown entries.

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@article{arxiv.2605.18487,
  title  = {The number of realisations of a random graph},
  author = {Sean Dewar and Anthony Nixon and Ben Smith},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.18487},
  year   = {2026}
}

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20 pages, 3 figures. Comments welcome!