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Law of Iterated Logarithm for random graphs

Combinatorics 2017-10-12 v3

Abstract

A milestone in Probability Theory is the law of the iterated logarithm (LIL), proved by Khinchin and independently by Kolmogorov in the 1920s, which asserts that for iid random variables {ti}i=1\{t_i\}_{i=1}^{\infty} with mean 00 and variance 11 Pr[lim supni=1ntiσn2loglogn=1]=1. \Pr \left[ \limsup_{n\rightarrow \infty} \frac{ \sum_{i=1}^n t_i }{\sigma_n \sqrt {2 \log \log n }} =1 \right] =1 . In this paper we prove that LIL holds for various functionals of random graphs and hypergraphs models. We first prove LIL for the number of copies of a fixed subgraph HH. Two harder results concern the number of global objects: perfect matchings and Hamiltonian cycles. The main new ingredient in these results is a large deviation bound, which may be of independent interest. For random kk-uniform hypergraphs, we obtain the Central Limit Theorem (CLT) and LIL for the number of Hamilton cycles.

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@article{arxiv.1607.08865,
  title  = {Law of Iterated Logarithm for random graphs},
  author = {Asaf Ferber and Daniel Montealegre and Van Vu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.08865},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Fixed typos and added referee suggestions

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