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A universal dichotomy for concentration in randomly colored graphs

Combinatorics 2026-05-05 v1

Abstract

Let ζ\zeta be Euclidean norm of the degree sequence of a graph normalized by the graph size. We prove that when the vertices of a graph are randomly colored with ss colors such that the fraction of vertices in each color class is bounded away from zero, only two asymptotic regimes emerge. If ζ=o(1)\zeta=o(1), then the sizes of the subgraphs induced by the color classes concentrate around their expected values. If ζ=Θ(1)\zeta=\Theta(1), then concentration depends on the color balance: for colorings with persisting imbalance, the total number MM of monochromatic edges stays bounded away from its mean with positive probability; otherwise, for vanishing imbalance, MM still concentrates. The same dichotomy holds for a broad class of randomly colored random graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2605.02678,
  title  = {A universal dichotomy for concentration in randomly colored graphs},
  author = {Nicola Apollonio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.02678},
  year   = {2026}
}

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21 pages, no figure

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