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Convergence to the Tracy-Widom distribution for longest paths in a directed random graph

Probability 2013-08-26 v2

Abstract

We consider a directed graph on the 2-dimensional integer lattice, placing a directed edge from vertex (i1,i2)(i_1,i_2) to (j1,j2)(j_1,j_2), whenever i1j1i_1 \le j_1, i2j2i_2 \le j_2, with probability pp, independently for each such pair of vertices. Let Ln,mL_{n,m} denote the maximum length of all paths contained in an n×mn \times m rectangle. We show that there is a positive exponent aa, such that, if m/na1m/n^a \to 1, as nn \to \infty, then a properly centered/rescaled version of Ln,mL_{n,m} converges weakly to the Tracy-Widom distribution. A generalization to graphs with non-constant probabilities is also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1303.6237,
  title  = {Convergence to the Tracy-Widom distribution for longest paths in a directed random graph},
  author = {Takis Konstantopoulos and Katja Trinajstić},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.6237},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

20 pages, 2 figures

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