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The diameter of KPKVB random graphs

Probability 2026-01-14 v5 Combinatorics

Abstract

We consider a model for complex networks that was recently proposed as a model for complex networks by Krioukov et al. In this model, nodes are chosen randomly inside a disk in the hyperbolic plane and two nodes are connected if they are at most a certain hyperbolic distance from each other. It has been previously shown that this model has various properties associated with complex networks, including a power-law degree distribution and a strictly positive clustering coefficient. The model is specified using three parameters : the number of nodes NN, which we think of as going to infinity, and α,ν>0\alpha, \nu > 0 which we think of as constant. Roughly speaking α\alpha controls the power law exponent of the degree sequence and ν\nu the average degree. Earlier work of Kiwi and Mitsche has shown that when α<1\alpha < 1 (which corresponds to the exponent of the power law degree sequence being <3< 3) then the diameter of the largest component is a.a.s.~polylogarithmic in NN. Friedrich and Krohmer have shown it is a.a.s.~Ω(logN)\Omega(\log N) and they improved the exponent of the polynomial in logN\log N in the upper bound. Here we show the maximum diameter over all components is a.a.s.~O(logN)O(\log N) thus giving a bound that is tight up to a multiplicative constant.

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@article{arxiv.1707.09555,
  title  = {The diameter of KPKVB random graphs},
  author = {Tobias Müller and Merlijn Staps},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.09555},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

very minor corrections since the last version

R2 v1 2026-06-22T21:01:25.091Z