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We consider a generalised model of a random simplicial complex, which arises from a random hypergraph. Our model is generated by taking the downward-closure of a non-uniform binomial random hypergraph, in which for each $k$, each set of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-06 Oliver Cooley , Nicola Del Giudice , Mihyun Kang , Philipp Sprüssel

In 1996, Gersten proved that finitely presented subgroups of a word hyperbolic group of integral cohomological dimension 2 are hyperbolic. We use isoperimetric inequalities over arbitrary rings to extend this result to any ring. In…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Shaked Bader , Robert Kropholler , Vladimir Vankov

We consider a multi-parameter model for randomly constructing simplicial complexes. This model interpolates between random clique complexes and Linial-Meshulam random $k$-dimensional complexes, two models that have been extensively studied.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Christopher F. Fowler

The $m$-neighbor complex of a graph is the simplicial complex in which faces are sets of vertices with at least $m$ common neighbors. We consider these complexes for Erdos-Renyi random graphs and find that for certain explicit families of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Eric Babson , Jan Spaliński

We introduce a natural generalization of the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph model in which random instances of a fixed motif are added independently. The binomial random motif graph $G(H,n,p)$ is the random (multi)graph obtained by adding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Michael Anastos , Peleg Michaeli , Samantha Petti

We construct a random model for an $n$-fold branched cover of a finite acceptable $2$-complex $X$. This includes presentation $2$-complexes for finitely presented groups satisfying some mild conditions. For any $\lambda >0$, we show that as…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Hyeran Cho , Jean-François Lafont , Rachel Skipper

The random $2$-dimensional simplicial complex process starts with a complete graph on $n$ vertices, and in every step a new $2$-dimensional face, chosen uniformly at random, is added. We prove that with probability tending to $1$ as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Tomasz Łuczak , Yuval Peled

Linial-Meshulam complex is a random simplicial complex on $n$ vertices with a complete $(d-1)$-dimensional skeleton and $d$-simplices occurring independently with probability p. Linial-Meshulam complex is one of the most studied…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-02-23 Kartick Adhikari , Kiran Kumar A. S. , Koushik Saha

We study random covers of a closed hyperbolic surface $\Sigma$, subject to the condition that, for $k\geq 2$, the fundamental group is isomorphic to the free group $F_k$. We show that asymptotically they distribute according to a specific…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Sophie Wright

Several years ago Linial and Meshulam introduced a model called X_d(n,p) of random n-vertex d-dimensional simplicial complexes. The following question suggests itself very naturally: What is the threshold probability p=p(n) at which the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-16 L. Aronshtam , N. Linial

We find conditions for the connectivity of inhomogeneous random graphs with intermediate density. Our results generalize the classical result for G(n, p), when p = c log n/n. We draw n independent points X_i from a general distribution on a…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-25 Luc Devroye , Nicolas Fraiman

We study fundamental groups of projective varieties with normal crossing singularities and of germs of complex singularities. We prove that for every finitely-presented group G there is a complex projective surface S with simple normal…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-20 Michael Kapovich , János Kollár

We characterize those 1-ended word hyperbolic groups whose Gromov boundaries are homeomorphic to trees of graphs (i.e. to inverse limits of graphs that have particularly simple finitary descriptions). These are groups with the simplest…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Nima Hoda , Jacek Świątkowski

We study fundamental groups of clique complexes associated to random graphs. We establish thresholds for their cohomological and geometric dimension and torsion. We also show that in certain regime any aspherical subcomplex of a random…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Armindo Costa , Michael Farber , Danijela Horak

We prove that in the $d$-dimensional Linial--Meshulam stochastic process the $(d - 1)$st homology group with integer coefficients vanishes exactly when the final isolated $(d - 1)$-dimensional face is covered by a top-dimensional face. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-03 Andrew Newman , Elliot Paquette

In their seminal paper introducing the theory of random graphs, Erd\H{o}s and R\'{e}nyi considered the evolution of the structure of a random subgraph of $K_n$ as the density increases from $0$ to $1$, identifying two key points in this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Maurício Collares , Joseph Doolittle , Joshua Erde

Simplicial complexes are gaining increasing scientific attention as they are generalized network structures that can represent the many-body interactions existing in complex systems raging from the brain to high-order social networks.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-07-15 Hanlin Sun , Robert M. Ziff , Ginestra Bianconi

We develop a limit theory for $1$-cochains of complete graphs with coefficients from a finite abelian group. We prove an analogue of the large deviation principle of Chatterjee and Varadhan for random cochains. We use these new tools to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-09 András Mészáros

We consider the random right-angled Coxeter group $W_{\Gamma}$ whose presentation graph $\Gamma\sim \mathcal{G}_{n,p}$ is an Erd{\H o}s--R\'enyi random graph on $n$ vertices with edge probability $p=p(n)$. We establish that $p=1/\sqrt{n}$…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Jason Behrstock , Recep Altar Ciceksiz , Victor Falgas-Ravry

Let $\mathbb{S}_n$ denote the symmetric group on $[n]=\{1,\ldots,n\}$ with the uniform probability measure. For a permutation $\pi \in \mathbb{S}_n$ let $X_{\pi}$ denote the simplicial complex on the vertex set $[n]$ whose simplices are all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-28 Roy Meshulam , Omer Moyal