Properties of Random Graphs -- Subgraph Containment

Lars Hupel 🌐

February 13, 2014

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Abstract

Random graphs are graphs with a fixed number of vertices, where each edge is present with a fixed probability. We are interested in the probability that a random graph contains a certain pattern, for example a cycle or a clique. A very high edge probability gives rise to perhaps too many edges (which degrades performance for many algorithms), whereas a low edge probability might result in a disconnected graph. We prove a theorem about a threshold probability such that a higher edge probability will asymptotically almost surely produce a random graph with the desired subgraph.

License

BSD License

Topics

Session Random_Graph_Subgraph_Threshold