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For any given graph $H$, we are interested in $p_\mathrm{crit}(H)$, the minimal $p$ such that the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graph $G(n,p)$ contains a copy of $H$ with probability at least $1/2$. Kahn and Kalai (2007) conjectured that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-08 Elchanan Mossel , Jonathan Niles-Weed , Nike Sun , Ilias Zadik

Let $p_\mathrm{c}$ and $q_\mathrm{c}$ be the threshold and the expectation threshold, respectively, of an increasing family $\mathcal{F}$ of subsets of a finite set $X$, and let $l$ be the size of a largest minimal element of $\mathcal{F}$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Tomasz Przybyłowski , Oliver Riordan

Park and Pham's recent proof of the Kahn-Kalai conjecture was a major breakthrough in the field of graph and hypergraph thresholds. Their result gives an upper bound on the threshold at which a probabilistic construction has a $1-\epsilon$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-22 Tolson Bell

We prove a few simple cases of a random graph statement that would imply the "second" Kahn--Kalai Conjecture. Even these cases turn out to be reasonably challenging, and it is hoped that the ideas introduced here may lead to further…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Quentin Dubroff , Jeff Kahn , Jinyoung Park

We revisit the Kahn-Kalai conjecture, recently proved in striking fashion by Park and Pham, and present a slightly reformulated simple proof which has a few advantages: (1) it works for non-uniform product measures, (2) it gives…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Bryan Park , Jan Vondrák

Neglecting many motivating details for the Park-Pham theorem (previously known as the Kahn-Kalai conjecture), the result starts with a finite set $X$, a non-trivial upper set $\mathcal{F} \subseteq 2^X$, and a particular parameterized…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Bryce Alan Christopherson , Darian Colgrove

Proving a conjecture of Talagrand, a fractional version of the 'expectation-threshold' conjecture of Kalai and the second author, we show for any increasing family $F$ on a finite set $X$ that $p_c (F) =O( q_f (F) \log \ell(F))$, where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-11 Keith Frankston , Jeff Kahn , Bhargav Narayanan , Jinyoung Park

The Park-Pham theorem (previously known as the Kahn-Kalai conjecture), bounds the critical probability, $p_c(\mathcal{F})$, of the a non-trivial property $\mathcal{F}\subseteq 2^X$ that is closed under supersets by the product of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Bryce Alan Christopherson , Jack Baretz

In a recent paper, Park and Pham famously proved Kahn-Kalai conjecture. In this note, we simplify their proof, using an induction to replace the original analysis. This reduces the proof to one page, and from the argument it is also easy to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-14 P. Tran , V. Vu

In this expository article, we give a gentle introduction to the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graphs and threshold phenomena that they exhibit. We also mildly introduce the Kahn-Kalai Conjecture with several intuitive examples, mainly targeting…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Jinyoung Park

We elucidate the relationship between the threshold and the expectation-threshold of a down-set. Qualitatively, our main result demonstrates that there exist down-sets with polynomial gaps between their thresholds and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-03 Benjamin Gunby , Xiaoyu He , Bhargav Narayanan

The threshold $p_c(H)$ for the event that the binomial random graph $G_{n,p}$ contains a copy of a graph $H$ is the unique $p$ for which $\mathbb{P}(H \subseteq G_{n,p}) = 1/2$, and the fractional expectation threshold $q_f(H)$ is roughly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Quentin Dubroff

This note concerns a well-known result which we term the ``spread lemma,'' which establishes the existence (with high probability) of a desired structure in a random set. The spread lemma was central to two recent celebrated results: (a)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Elchanan Mossel , Jonathan Niles-Weed , Nike Sun , Ilias Zadik

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

Consider a host hypergraph $G$ which contains a spanning structure due to minimum degree considerations. We collect three results proving that if the edges of $G$ are sampled at the appropriate rate then the spanning structure still appears…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Huy Tuan Pham , Ashwin Sah , Mehtaab Sawhney , Michael Simkin

Building on B.Park and Vondrak's recent generalization of the J.Park-Pham Theorem (formerly known as Kahn-Kalai conjecture) to non-uniform probability measures, this paper introduces the notion of "spread" for the non-uniform setting. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Thinula De Silva , Pu Gao

We show that a restricted version of a conjecture of M. Talagrand on the relation between "expectation thresholds" and "fractional expectation thresholds" follows easily from a strong version of a second conjecture of Talagrand, on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Quentin Dubroff , Jeff Kahn , Jinyoung Park

Gunby-He-Narayanan showed that the logarithmic gap predictions of Kahn-Kalai and Talagrand (proved by Park-Pham and Frankston-Kahn-Narayanan-Park) about thresholds of up-sets do not apply to down-sets. In particular, for the down-set of…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Lutz Warnke

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

A major question in the study of the Erd\H{o}s--R\'enyi random graph is to understand the probability that it contains a given subgraph. This study originated in classical work of Erd\H{o}s and R\'enyi (1960). More recent work studies this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Elchanan Mossel , Jonathan Niles-Weed , Youngtak Sohn , Nike Sun , Ilias Zadik
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