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Let $X_n(k)$ be the number of vertices at level $k$ in a random recursive tree with $n+1$ vertices. We are interested in the asymptotic behavior of $X_n(k)$ for intermediate levels $k=k_n$ satisfying $k_n\to\infty$ and $k_n=o(\log n)$ as…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Alexander Iksanov , Zakhar Kabluchko

Given a vertex in a $(k, \varphi, \epsilon)$-clusterable graph, i.e. a graph whose vertex set can be partitioned into a disjoint union of $\varphi$-expanders of size $\approx n/k$ with outer conductance bounded by $\epsilon$, can one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Michael Kapralov , Ekaterina Kochetkova , Weronika Wrzos-Kaminska

In a coalescing random walk, a set of particles make independent random walks on a graph. Whenever one or more particles meet at a vertex, they unite to form a single particle, which then continues the random walk through the graph.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-28 Colin Cooper , Robert Elsasser , Hirotaka Ono , Tomasz Radzik

This paper considers non-backtracking random walks on random graphs generated according to the configuration model. The quantity of interest is the scaling of the mixing time of the random walk as the number of vertices of the random graph…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-15 Luca Avena , Hakan Güldaş , Remco van der Hofstad , Frank den Hollander , Oliver Nagy

We revisit the classical friendship paradox which states that on an average ones friends have at least as many friends as oneself and generalize it to a variety of network centrality indices. For a broad class of spectral centralities on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Rajat Subhra Hazra , Evgeny Verbitskiy

One of interesting phenomena due to topological heterogeneities in complex networks is the friendship paradox: Your friends have on average more friends than you do. Recently, this paradox has been generalized for arbitrary node attributes,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-08-26 Hang-Hyun Jo , Young-Ho Eom

Recent empirical investigations suggest a universal scaling law for the spatial structure of social networks. It is found that the probability density distribution of an individual to have a friend at distance $d$ scales as $P(d)\propto…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-17 Yanqing Hu , Yong Li , Zengru Di , Ying Fan

Consider two graphs $X$ and $Y$, each with $n$ vertices. The friends-and-strangers graph $\mathsf{FS}(X,Y)$ of $X$ and $Y$ is a graph with vertex set consisting of all bijections $\sigma :V(X) \mapsto V(Y)$, where two bijections $\sigma$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Lanchao Wang , Yaojun Chen

The integer points (sites) of the real line are marked by the positions of a standard random walk. We say that the set of marked sites is weakly, moderately or strongly sparse depending on whether the jumps of the standard random walk are…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-08 Dariusz Buraczewski , Piotr Dyszewski , Alexander Iksanov , Alexander Marynych

We consider the empirical neighborhood distribution of marked sparse Erd\"os-R\'enyi random graphs, obtained by decorating edges and vertices of a sparse Erd\"os-R\'enyi random graph with i.i.d.\ random elements taking values on Polish…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Rangel Baldasso , Roberto I Oliveira , Alan Pereira , Guilherme Reis

Efficient techniques to navigate networks with local information are fundamental to sample large-scale online social systems and to retrieve resources in peer-to-peer systems. Biased random walks, i.e. walks whose motion is biased on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-06-29 Federico Battiston , Vincenzo Nicosia , Vito Latora

The statistical distribution of levels of an integrable system is claimed to be a Poisson distribution. In this paper, we numerically generate an ensemble of N dimensional random diagonal matrices as a model for regular systems. We evaluate…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2011-09-27 A. A. Abul-Magd , A. Y. Abul-Magd

Due to the increasing discovery and implementation of networks within all disciplines of life, the study of subgraph connectivity has become increasingly important. Motivated by the idea of community (or sub-graph) detection within a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Linda Eroh , Henry Escuardo , Ralucca Gera , Samuel Prahlow , Karl R. B. Schmitt

In this paper, we analyse a sub-class of two-dimensional homogeneous nearest neighbour (simple) random walk restricted on the lattice using the matrix geometric approach. In particular, we first present an alternative approach for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-21 Stella Kapodistria , Zbigniew Palmowski

In this paper, we study the online nearest neighbor random tree in dimension $d\in \mathbb N$ (called $d$-NN tree for short) defined as follows. We fix the torus $\mathbb T^d_n$ of dimension $d$ and area $n$ and equip it with the metric…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Lyuben Lichev , Dieter Mitsche

We study spreading processes in temporal graphs, i. e., graphs whose connections change over time. These processes naturally model real-world phenomena such as infectious diseases or information flows. More precisely, we investigate how…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Hendrik Molter , Malte Renken , Philipp Zschoche

We suggest a new type of problem about distances in graphs and make several conjectures. As a first step towards proving them, we show that for sufficiently large values of n and k, a graph on n vertices that has no three vertices at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-08-09 Mykhaylo Tyomkyn , Andrew Uzzell

For $r \ge 2$, an $r$-uniform hypergraph is called a friendship $r$-hypergraph if every set $R$ of $r$ vertices has a unique 'friend' - that is, there exists a unique vertex $x \notin R$ with the property that for each subset $A \subseteq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-30 Karen Gunderson , Natasha Morrison , Jason Semeraro

For $k\ge 1$, the $k$-independence number $\alpha_k$ of a graph is the maximum number of vertices that are mutually at distance greater than $k$. The well-known inertia and ratio bounds for the (1-)independence number $\alpha(=\alpha_1)$ of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Aida Abiad , Cristina Dalfó , Miquel Àngel Fiol , Sjanne Zeijlemaker

A vertex subset of a graph is called a distance-$k$ independent set if the distance between any two of its distinct vertices is at least $k + 1$. For all $n,k \geq 1$, we determine the minimum possible number of inclusion-wise maximal…

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