The isoperimetric constant of the random graph process

dc.creatorBenjamini, Itai
dc.creatorHaber, Simi
dc.creatorKrivelevich, Michael
dc.creatorLubetzky, Eyal
dc.date2005-09-01
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:22:53Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T05:22:53Z
dc.descriptionThe isoperimetric constant of a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices, $i(G)$, is the minimum of $\frac{|\partial S|}{|S|}$, taken over all nonempty subsets $S\subset V(G)$ of size at most $n/2$, where $\partial S$ denotes the set of edges with precisely one end in $S$. A random graph process on $n$ vertices, $\widetilde{G}(t)$, is a sequence of $\binom{n}{2}$ graphs, where $\widetilde{G}(0)$ is the edgeless graph on $n$ vertices, and $\widetilde{G}(t)$ is the result of adding an edge to $\widetilde{G}(t-1)$, uniformly distributed over all the missing edges. We show that in almost every graph process $i(\widetilde{G}(t))$ equals the minimal degree of $\widetilde{G}(t)$ as long as the minimal degree is $o(\log n)$. Furthermore, we show that this result is essentially best possible, by demonstrating that along the period in which the minimum degree is typically $Θ(\log n)$, the ratio between the isoperimetric constant and the minimum degree falls from 1 to 1/2, its final value.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0509022
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0509022
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/76234
dc.subjectProbability
dc.subjectCombinatorics
dc.titleThe isoperimetric constant of the random graph process
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