Related papers: On the "second" Kahn--Kalai Conjecture
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…
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 $\mathcal{F}$.…
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 $1-\epsilon$…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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 $H'$…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…