scholarly journals Multicoloured Hamilton cycles in random graphs; an anti-Ramsey threshold

10.37236/1213 ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Cooper ◽  
Alan Frieze

Let the edges of a graph $G$ be coloured so that no colour is used more than $k$ times. We refer to this as a $k$-bounded colouring. We say that a subset of the edges of $G$ is multicoloured if each edge is of a different colour. We say that the colouring is $\cal H$-good, if a multicoloured Hamilton cycle exists i.e., one with a multicoloured edge-set. Let ${\cal AR}_k$ = $\{G :$ every $k$-bounded colouring of $G$ is $\cal H$-good$\}$. We establish the threshold for the random graph $G_{n,m}$ to be in ${\cal AR}_k$.

10.37236/5025 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asaf Ferber

We show how to adjust a very nice coupling argument due to McDiarmid in order to prove/reprove in a novel way results concerning Hamilton cycles in various models of random graph and hypergraphs. In particular, we firstly show that for $k\geq 3$, if $pn^{k-1}/\log n$ tends to infinity, then a random $k$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices, with edge probability $p$, with high probability (w.h.p.) contains a loose Hamilton cycle, provided that $(k-1)|n$. This generalizes results of Frieze, Dudek and Frieze, and reproves a result of Dudek, Frieze, Loh and Speiss. Secondly, we show that there exists $K>0$ such for every $p\geq (K\log n)/n$ the following holds: Let $G_{n,p}$ be a random graph on $n$ vertices with edge probability $p$, and suppose that its edges are being colored with $n$ colors uniformly at random. Then, w.h.p. the resulting graph contains a Hamilton cycle with for which all the colors appear (a rainbow Hamilton cycle). Bal and Frieze proved the latter statement for graphs on an even number of vertices, where for odd $n$ their $p$ was $\omega((\log n)/n)$. Lastly, we show that for $p=(1+o(1))(\log n)/n$, if we randomly color the edge set of a random directed graph $D_{n,p}$ with $(1+o(1))n$ colors, then w.h.p. one can find a rainbow Hamilton cycle where all the edges are directed in the same way.


10.37236/5414 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asaf Ferber ◽  
Pascal Pfister

In a strong game played on the edge set of a graph $G$ there are two players, Red and Blue, alternating turns in claiming previously unclaimed edges of $G$ (with Red playing first). The winner is the first one to claim all the edges of some target structure (such as a clique $K_k$, a perfect matching, a Hamilton cycle, etc.). In this paper we consider strong games played on the edge set of a random graph $G\sim G(n,p)$ on $n$ vertices. We prove that $G\sim G(n,p)$ is typically such that Red can win the perfect matching game played on $E(G)$, provided that $p\in(0,1)$ is a fixed constant. 


10.37236/8279 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Padraig Condon ◽  
Alberto Espuny Díaz ◽  
Daniela Kühn ◽  
Deryk Osthus ◽  
Jaehoon Kim

Pósa's theorem states that any graph $G$ whose degree sequence $d_1 \le \cdots \le d_n$ satisfies $d_i \ge i+1$ for all $i < n/2$ has a Hamilton cycle. This degree condition is best possible. We show that a similar result holds for suitable subgraphs $G$ of random graphs, i.e.~we prove a `resilience version' of Pósa's theorem: if $pn \ge C \log n$ and the $i$-th vertex degree (ordered increasingly) of $G \subseteq G_{n,p}$ is at least $(i+o(n))p$ for all $i<n/2$, then $G$ has a Hamilton cycle. This is essentially best possible and strengthens a resilience version of Dirac's theorem obtained by Lee and Sudakov. Chvátal's theorem generalises Pósa's theorem and characterises all degree sequences which ensure the existence of a Hamilton cycle. We show that a natural guess for a resilience version of Chvátal's theorem fails to be true. We formulate a conjecture which would repair this guess, and show that the corresponding degree conditions ensure the existence of a perfect matching in any subgraph of $G_{n,p}$ which satisfies these conditions. This provides an asymptotic characterisation of all degree sequences which resiliently guarantee the existence of a perfect matching.


10.37236/9510 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Hahn-Klimroth ◽  
Giulia Maesaka ◽  
Yannick Mogge ◽  
Samuel Mohr ◽  
Olaf Parczyk

In the model of randomly perturbed graphs we consider the union of a deterministic graph $\mathcal{G}_\alpha$ with minimum degree $\alpha n$ and the binomial random graph $\mathbb{G}(n,p)$. This model was introduced by Bohman, Frieze, and Martin and for Hamilton cycles their result bridges the gap between Dirac's theorem and the results by Pósa and Korshunov on the threshold in $\mathbb{G}(n,p)$. In this note we extend this result in $\mathcal{G}_\alpha\cup\mathbb{G}(n,p)$ to sparser graphs with $\alpha=o(1)$. More precisely, for any $\varepsilon>0$ and $\alpha \colon \mathbb{N} \mapsto (0,1)$ we show that a.a.s. $\mathcal{G}_\alpha\cup \mathbb{G}(n,\beta /n)$ is Hamiltonian, where $\beta = -(6 + \varepsilon) \log(\alpha)$. If $\alpha>0$ is a fixed constant this gives the aforementioned result by Bohman, Frieze, and Martin and if $\alpha=O(1/n)$ the random part $\mathbb{G}(n,p)$ is sufficient for a Hamilton cycle. We also discuss embeddings of bounded degree trees and other spanning structures in this model, which lead to interesting questions on almost spanning embeddings into $\mathbb{G}(n,p)$.


Author(s):  
Mark Newman

An introduction to the mathematics of the Poisson random graph, the simplest model of a random network. The chapter starts with a definition of the model, followed by derivations of basic properties like the mean degree, degree distribution, and clustering coefficient. This is followed with a detailed derivation of the large-scale structural properties of random graphs, including the position of the phase transition at which a giant component appears, the size of the giant component, the average size of the small components, and the expected diameter of the network. The chapter ends with a discussion of some of the shortcomings of the random graph model.


Author(s):  
Stefan Glock ◽  
Stephen Gould ◽  
Felix Joos ◽  
Daniela Kühn ◽  
Deryk Osthus

Abstract A tight Hamilton cycle in a k-uniform hypergraph (k-graph) G is a cyclic ordering of the vertices of G such that every set of k consecutive vertices in the ordering forms an edge. Rödl, Ruciński and Szemerédi proved that for $k\ge 3$ , every k-graph on n vertices with minimum codegree at least $n/2+o(n)$ contains a tight Hamilton cycle. We show that the number of tight Hamilton cycles in such k-graphs is ${\exp(n\ln n-\Theta(n))}$ . As a corollary, we obtain a similar estimate on the number of Hamilton ${\ell}$ -cycles in such k-graphs for all ${\ell\in\{0,\ldots,k-1\}}$ , which makes progress on a question of Ferber, Krivelevich and Sudakov.


10.37236/5327 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deepak Bal ◽  
Patrick Bennett ◽  
Andrzej Dudek ◽  
Paweł Prałat

Let $G$ be a graph in which each vertex initially has weight 1. In each step, the weight from a vertex $u$ to a neighbouring vertex $v$ can be moved, provided that the weight on $v$ is at least as large as the weight on $u$. The total acquisition number of $G$, denoted by $a_t(G)$, is the minimum possible size of the set of vertices with positive weight at the end of the process.LeSaulnier, Prince, Wenger, West, and Worah asked for the minimum value of $p=p(n)$ such that $a_t(\mathcal{G}(n,p)) = 1$ with high probability, where $\mathcal{G}(n,p)$ is a binomial random graph. We show that $p = \frac{\log_2 n}{n} \approx 1.4427 \ \frac{\log n}{n}$ is a sharp threshold for this property. We also show that almost all trees $T$ satisfy $a_t(T) = \Theta(n)$, confirming a conjecture of West.


10.37236/2596 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin McDiarmid

There has been much recent interest in random graphs sampled uniformly from the $n$-vertex graphs in a suitable structured class, such as the class of all planar graphs. Here we consider a general bridge-addable class $\cal A$ of graphs -- if a graph is in $\cal A$ and $u$ and $v$ are vertices in different components   then the graph obtained by adding an edge (bridge) between $u$ and $v$ must also be in $\cal A$. Various bounds are known concerning the probability of a random graph from such a   class being connected or having many components, sometimes under the additional assumption that bridges can be deleted as well as added. Here we improve or amplify or generalise these bounds (though we do not resolve the main conjecture). For example, we see that the expected number of vertices left when we remove a largest component is less than 2. The generalisation is to consider `weighted' random graphs, sampled from a suitable more general distribution, where the focus is on the bridges.


1989 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lajos Takács

This paper demonstrates how a simple ballot theorem leads, through the interjection of a queuing process, to the solution of a problem in the theory of random graphs connected with a study of polymers in chemistry. Let Γn(p) denote a random graph with n vertices in which any two vertices, independently of the others, are connected by an edge with probability p where 0 < p < 1. Denote by ρ n(s) the number of vertices in the union of all those components of Γn(p) which contain at least one vertex of a given set of s vertices. This paper is concerned with the determination of the distribution of ρ n(s) and the limit distribution of ρ n(s) as n → ∞and ρ → 0 in such a way that np → a where a is a positive real number.


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