A phase transition in Erd\H{o}s-Barak random graphs
Probability
2026-01-19 v2 Combinatorics
Statistics Theory
Statistics Theory
Abstract
We study monotone paths in Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graphs on numbered vertices. Benjamini & Tzalik established a phase transition at for this model. We refine the critical value to and identify the critical window of order .
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@article{arxiv.2512.05756,
title = {A phase transition in Erd\H{o}s-Barak random graphs},
author = {Gilles Blanchard and Nicolas Curien and Klara Krause and Alexander Reisach},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.05756},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
6 pages. We have added the acknowledgments (which may be worth reading for our French collegues)