Large complete minors in random subgraphs

Let G be a graph of minimum degree at least k and let G p be the random subgraph of G obtained by keeping each edge independently with probability p. We are interested in the size of the largest complete minor that G p contains when p = (1 + ε)/k with ε > 0. We show that with high probability G p contains a complete minor of order $\tilde{\Omega}(\sqrt{k})$ , where the ~ hides a polylogarithmic factor. Furthermore, in the case where the order of G is also bounded above by a constant multiple of k, we show that this polylogarithmic term can be removed, giving a tight bound.

Paths and Cycles in Random Subgraphs of Graphs with Large Minimum Degree

For a graph $G$ and $p\in [0,1]$, let $G_p$ arise from $G$ by deleting every edge mutually independently with probability $1-p$. The random graph model $(K_n)_p$ is certainly the most investigated random graph model and also known as the $G(n,p)$-model. We show that several results concerning the length of the longest path/cycle naturally translate to $G_p$ if $G$ is an arbitrary graph of minimum degree at least $n-1$.For a constant $c>0$ and $p=\frac{c}{n}$, we show that asymptotically almost surely the length of the longest path in $G_p$ is at least $(1-(1+\epsilon(c))ce^{-c})n$ for some function $\epsilon(c)\to 0$ as $c\to \infty$, and the length of the longest cycle is a least $(1-O(c^{- \frac{1}{5}}))n$. The first result is asymptotically best-possible. This extends several known results on the length of the longest path/cycle of a random graph in the $G(n,p)$-model to the random graph model $G_p$ where $G$ is a graph of minimum degree at least $n-1$.