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We study the expected value of the length $L_n$ of the minimum spanning tree of the complete graph $K_n$ when each edge $e$ is given an independent uniform $[0,1]$ edge weight. We sharpen the result of Frieze \cite{F1} that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Colin Cooper , Alan Frieze , Nate Ince , Svante Janson , Joel Spencer

We study the evolution of random graphs where edges are added one by one between pairs of weighted vertices so that resulting graphs are scale-free with the degree exponent $\gamma$. We use the branching process approach to obtain scaling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. -S. Lee , K. -I. Goh , B. Kahng , D. Kim

Random graph matching refers to recovering the underlying vertex correspondence between two random graphs with correlated edges; a prominent example is when the two random graphs are given by Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi graphs $G(n,\frac{d}{n})$.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-21 Jian Ding , Zongming Ma , Yihong Wu , Jiaming Xu

In this paper we investigate the extremal relationship between two well-studied graph parameters: the order of the largest homogeneous set in a graph $G$ and the maximal number of distinct degrees appearing in an induced subgraph of $G$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Eoin Long , Laurentiu Ploscaru

We show that there is a constant c>0 so that for any fixed r which is at least 3 a.a.s. an r-regular graph on n vertices contains a complete graph on c n^{1/2} vertices as a minor. This confirms a conjecture of Markstrom. Since any minor of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-03-21 N. Fountoulakis , D. Kühn , D. Osthus

We give variants of the Krein bound and the absolute bound for graphs with a spectrum similar to that of a strongly regular graph. In particular, we investigate what we call approximately strongly regular graphs. We apply our results to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Ferdinand Ihringer

In this paper we derive results concerning the connected components and the diameter of random graphs with an arbitrary i.i.d. degree sequence. We study these properties primarily, but not exclusively, when the tail of the degree…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Remco van der Hofstad , Gerard Hooghiemstra , Dmitri Znamenski

A celebrated conjecture of Zs. Tuza says that in any (finite) graph, the minimum size of a cover of triangles by edges is at most twice the maximum size of a set of edge-disjoint triangles. Resolving a recent question of Bennett, Dudek, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Jeff Kahn , Jinyoung Park

We generalize the asymptotic behavior of the graph distance between two uniformly chosen nodes in the configuration model to a wide class of random graphs. Among others, this class contains the Poissonian random graph, the expected degree…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-05-19 Henri van den Esker , Remco van der Hofstad , Gerard Hooghiemstra

The celebrated Mantel's theorem states that any triangle-free graph on $n$ vertices contains at most $\left\lfloor n^2/4\right\rfloor$ edges. It is natural to ask how many triangles must exist in a graph with more than $\left\lfloor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Yuhang Bai , Gyula O. H. Katona , Zixuan Yang

As suggested by Itai Benjamini, we introduced a variant of the Erd\"os- R\'enyi random graph process with a forbidden degree $k$, in which every edge adjacent to a vertex $v$ is removed when the degree of $v$ reaches $k$ (but the removed…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-29 Lucas Mercier

We study large minors in small-set expanders. More precisely, we consider graphs with $n$ vertices and the property that every set of size at most $\alpha n / t$ expands by a factor of $t$, for some (constant) $\alpha > 0$ and large $t =…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Michael Krivelevich , Rajko Nenadov

We consider the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi evolution of random graphs, where a new uniformly distributed edge is added to the graph in every step. For every fixed $d\ge 1$, we show that with high probability, the graph becomes rigid in $\mathbb R^d$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Alan Lew , Eran Nevo , Yuval Peled , Orit E. Raz

We present a new algorithm for improving lower bounds on $ex(n;\{C_3,C_4\})$, the maximum size (number of edges) of an $n$-vertex graph of girth at least 5. The core of our algorithm is a variant of a hill-climbing heuristic introduced by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Jan Goedgebeur , Jorik Jooken , Gwenaël Joret , Tibo Van den Eede

We analyse the size of an independent set in a random graph on $n$ vertices with specified vertex degrees, constructed via a simple greedy algorithm: order the vertices arbitrarily, and, for each vertex in turn, place it in the independent…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Graham Brightwell , Svante Janson , Malwina Luczak

In this paper we study the diameter of the random graph $G(n,p)$, i.e., the the largest finite distance between two vertices, for a wide range of functions $p=p(n)$. For $p=\la/n$ with $\la>1$ constant, we give a simple proof of an…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-10-07 Oliver Riordan , Nicholas Wormald

We prove that there is a constant $c >0$, such that whenever $p \ge n^{-c}$, with probability tending to 1 when $n$ goes to infinity, every maximum triangle-free subgraph of the random graph $G_{n,p}$ is bipartite. This answers a question…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-08-27 Graham Brightwell , Konstantinos Panagiotou , Angelika Steger

Motivated by applications of Gabriel graphs and Yao graphs in wireless ad-hoc networks, we show that the maximal degree of a random Gabriel graph or Yao graph defined on $n$ points drawn uniformly at random from a unit square grows as…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-05-25 Luc Devroye , Joachim Gudmundsson , Pat Morin

Let $r\ge 3$ be a fixed constant and let $ {\mathcal H}$ be an $r$-uniform, $D$-regular hypergraph on $N$ vertices. Assume further that $ D > N^\varepsilon $ for some $ \varepsilon>0 $. Consider the random greedy algorithm for forming an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Patrick Bennett , Tom Bohman

We locate the critical threshold $p_c$ at which it becomes likely that the complete graph $K_n$ can be obtained from the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graph ${\cal G}_{n,p}$ by iteratively completing copies of $K_4$ minus an edge. This refines work of…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Brett Kolesnik