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We make progress on a conjecture of Kahn and Kalai, the original (stronger but less general) version of what became known as the ``Kahn-Kalai Conjecture" (KKC; now a theorem of Park and Pham). This ``second" KKC concerns the threshold,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Quentin Dubroff , Jeff Kahn , Jinyoung Park

A wide variety of complex networks (social, biological, information etc.) exhibit local clustering with substantial variation in the clustering coefficient (the probability of neighbors being connected). Existing models of large graphs…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Samantha Petti , Santosh Vempala

The analysis of large simple graphs with extreme values of the densities of edges and triangles has been extended to the statistical structure of typical graphs of fixed intermediate densities, by the use of large deviations of Erdoes-Renyi…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Joe Neeman , Charles Radin , Lorenzo Sadun

We derive a simple formula characterizing the distribution of the size of the connected component of a fixed vertex in the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph which allows us to give elementary proofs of some results of Federico, van der…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-27 Balazs Rath

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

Let k be a natural number. We introduce k-threshold graphs. We show that there exists an O(n^3) algorithm for the recognition of k-threshold graphs for each natural number k. k-Threshold graphs are characterized by a finite collection of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Ling-Ju Hung , Ton Kloks , Fernando Villaamil

We develop a quantitative large deviations theory for random hypergraphs, which rests on tensor decomposition and counting lemmas under a novel family of cut-type norms. As our main application, we obtain sharp asymptotics for joint upper…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-05-10 Nicholas A. Cook , Amir Dembo , Huy Tuan Pham

A wide array of random graph models have been postulated to understand properties of observed networks. Typically these models have a parameter $t$ and a critical time $t_c$ when a giant component emerges. It is conjectured that for a large…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Shankar Bhamidi , Nicolas Broutin , Sanchayan Sen , Xuan Wang

Estimating the probability that the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph $G(n,m)$ is $H$-free, for a fixed graph $H$, is one of the fundamental problems in random graph theory. If $m$ is such that each edge of $G(n,m)$ belongs to a copy of $H'$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-13 Rajko Nenadov

In this paper we explore maximal deviations of large random structures from their typical behavior. We introduce a model for a high-dimensional random graph process and ask analogous questions to those of Vapnik and Chervonenkis for…

Denote by $\mathcal{H}_k (n,p)$ the random $k$-graph in which each $k$-subset of $\{1... n\}$ is present with probability $p$, independent of other choices. More or less answering a question of Balogh, Bohman and Mubayi, we show: there is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-17 Arran Hamm , Jeff Kahn

Recently, variants of many classical extremal theorems have been proved in the random environment. We, complementing existing results, extend the Erd\H{o}s-Gallai Theorem in random graphs. In particular, we determine, up to a constant…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-15 József Balogh , Andrzej Dudek , Lina Li

Consider a random graph G in G(n,p) and the graph property: G contains a copy of a specific graph H. (Note: H depends on n; a motivating example: H is a Hamiltonian cycle.) Let q be the minimal value for which the expected number of copies…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jeff Kahn , Gil Kalai

The theory of graphons comes with a natural sampling procedure, which results in an inhomogeneous variant of the Erd\H{o}s--R\'enyi random graph, called $W$-random graphs. We prove, via the method of moments, a limit theorem for the number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Jan Hladky , Christos Pelekis , Matas Sileikis

Random intersection graphs have received much interest and been used in diverse applications. They are naturally induced in modeling secure sensor networks under random key predistribution schemes, as well as in modeling the topologies of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Jun Zhao , Osman Yağan , Virgil Gligor

Kemeny's constant measures how fast a random walker moves around in a graph. Expressions for Kemeny's constant can be quite involved, and for this reason, many lines of research focus on graphs with structure that makes them amenable to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Jane Breen , Sooyeong Kim , Alexander Low Fung , Amy Mann , Andrei A. Parfeni , Giovanni Tedesco

We apply here methods of inhomogeneous random graphs to a class of random distance graphs. This provides an example outside of the rank 1 models which is still solvable as long as the largest connected component is concerned. In particular,…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Fioralba Ajazi , George M. Napolitano , Tatyana Turova

It is an important fact that extremal discrete structures -- that is, discrete structures of maximal size among those that avoid certain configurations -- exhibit strong pseudorandom behavior. We present instances of this phenomenon in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Noé de Rancourt , Pandelis Dodos , Konstantinos Tyros

The main contribution of this article is an asymptotic expression for the rate associated with moderate deviations of subgraph counts in the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graph $G(n,m)$. Our approach is based on applying Freedman's inequalities…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Christina Goldschmidt , Simon Griffiths , Alex Scott

We study the intersection of a random geometric graph with an Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graph. Specifically, we generate the random geometric graph $G(n, r)$ by choosing $n$ points uniformly at random from $D=[0, 1]^2$ and joining any two points…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-08 Patrick Bennett , Alan Frieze , Wesley Pegden