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Prominent examples of flip processes

Combinatorics 2024-11-15 v1 Probability

Abstract

Flip processes, introduced in [Garbe, Hladk\'y, \v{S}ileikis, Skerman: From flip processes to dynamical systems on graphons], are a class of random graph processes defined using a rule which is just a function R:HkHk\mathcal{R}:\mathcal{H}_k\rightarrow \mathcal{H}_k from all labelled graphs of a fixed order kk into itself. The process starts with an arbitrary given nn-vertex graph G0G_0. In each step, the graph GiG_i is obtained by sampling kk random vertices v1,,vkv_1,\ldots,v_k of Gi1G_{i-1} and replacing the induced graph Gi1[v1,,vk]G_{i-1}[v_1,\ldots,v_k] by R(Gi1[v1,,vk])\mathcal{R}(G_{i-1}[v_1,\ldots,v_k]). Using the formalism of dynamical systems on graphons associated to each such flip process from ibid. we study several specific flip processes, including the triangle removal flip process and its generalizations, 'extremist flip processes' (in which R(H)\mathcal{R}(H) is either a clique or an independent set, depending on whether e(H)e(H) has less or more than half of all potential edges), and 'ignorant flip processes' in which the output R(H)\mathcal{R}(H) does not depend on HH.

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@article{arxiv.2206.03884,
  title  = {Prominent examples of flip processes},
  author = {Pedro Araújo and Jan Hladký and Eng Keat Hng and Matas Šileikis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.03884},
  year   = {2024}
}
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