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Random Graphs from Classes with Constraints

Konstantinos Panagiotou
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik - D1
Meeting
AG 1, AG 3, AG 5, RG2, AG 2, AG 4, RG1, SWS  
AG Audience
English

Date, Time and Location

Wednesday, 19 November 2008
14:00
30 Minutes
E1 4
Rotunda 3rd floor
Saarbrücken

Abstract

In this talk we will discuss properties of graphs drawn uniformly at

random from graph classes with structural constraints, like for
example planar graphs. In particular, denote for a graph G by b(s; G)
the number of blocks (i.e. maximal biconnected subgraphs) of G
that contain exactly s vertices, and let lb(G) be the number of
vertices in the largest block of G. We show that under certain
natural and easy to verify assumptions on the graph class under
consideration, there are only two ways how a random graph with n
vertices looks like with high probability:

I) lb(G) < log n
II) lb(G) = cn for some c depending on the graph class, an the
second largest block contains n^a vertices, where a < 1.

Random planar graphs are of type (II), while for example K_4-
minor free graphs are of type (I). We will discuss some implications
of this results towards a random graph theory for constrained graph
classes, and talk about the major remaining challenges.

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Konstantinos Panagiotou, 11/12/2008 11:10
Konstantinos Panagiotou, 11/05/2008 11:00
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