English

The $Q_2$-free process in the hypercube

Combinatorics 2020-10-14 v2 Probability

Abstract

The generation of a random triangle-saturated graph via the triangle-free process has been studied extensively. In this short note our aim is to introduce an analogous process in the hypercube. Specifically, we consider the Q2Q_2-free process in QdQ_d and the random subgraph of QdQ_d it generates. Our main result is that with high probability the graph resulting from this process has at least cd2/32dcd^{2/3} 2^d edges. We also discuss a heuristic argument based on the differential equations method which suggests a stronger conjecture, and discuss the issues with making this rigorous. We conclude with some open questions related to this process.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1804.09029,
  title  = {The $Q_2$-free process in the hypercube},
  author = {J. Robert Johnson and Trevor Pinto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.09029},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

12 pages. Minor changes in response to referee's comments. To appear in The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics

R2 v1 2026-06-23T01:34:01.407Z