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A Preferential Attachment Process Approaching the Rado Graph

Combinatorics 2020-04-22 v5

Abstract

We consider a simple Preferential Attachment graph process, which begins with a finite graph, and in which a new (t+1)(t+1)st vertex is added at each subsequent time step tt, and connected to each previous vertex utu \leq t with probability du(t)t\frac{d_u(t)}{t} where du(t)d_u(t) is the degree of uu at time tt. We analyse the graph obtained as the infinite limit of this process, and show that so long as the initial finite graph is neither edgeless nor complete, with probability 1 the outcome will be a copy of the Rado graph augmented with a finite number of either isolated or universal vertices.

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@article{arxiv.1603.08806,
  title  = {A Preferential Attachment Process Approaching the Rado Graph},
  author = {Richard Elwes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.08806},
  year   = {2020}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1502.05618

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