Title
Anatomy of the giant component: The strictly supercritical regime
Abstract
In a recent work of the authors and Kim, we derived a complete description of the largest component of the Erdos-Renyi random graph G(n,p) as it emerges from the critical window, i.e. for p=(1+@e)/n where @e^3n-~ and @e=o(1), in terms of a tractable contiguous model. Here we provide the analogous description for the supercritical giant component, i.e. the largest component of G(n,p) for p=@l/n where @l1 is fixed. The contiguous model is roughly as follows. Take a random degree sequence and sample a random multigraph with these degrees to arrive at the kernel; replace the edges by paths whose lengths are i.i.d. geometric variables to arrive at the 2-core; attach i.i.d. Poisson-Galton-Watson trees to the vertices for the final giant component. As in the case of the emerging giant, we obtain this result via a sequence of contiguity arguments at the heart of which are Kim's Poisson-cloning method and the Pittel-Wormald local limit theorems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.ejc.2013.06.004
Eur. J. Comb.
Keywords
Field
DocType
random multigraph,largest component,contiguous model,tractable contiguous model,analogous description,random degree sequence,supercritical regime,erdos-renyi random graph,final giant component,supercritical giant component,complete description
Kernel (linear algebra),Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Contiguity,Multigraph,Random graph,Vertex (geometry),Contiguity (probability theory),Giant component,Degree (graph theory),Mathematics
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
35,
0195-6698
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.54
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jian Ding11039.96
Eyal Lubetzky235528.87
Yuval Peres352353.68