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 -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- 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}
}
Comments
20 pages, 3 figures. Comments welcome!