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Cycles in a Uniform Graph Process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2008

Jerzy Jaworski
Affiliation:
Department of Discrete Mathematics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
Tomasz Łuczak
Affiliation:
Department of Discrete Mathematics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.

Abstract

We study the asymptotic properties of a “uniform” random graph process in which the minimum degree of U(n, M) grows at least as fast as ⌊M/n⌋. We show that if Mn → → ∞, almost surely U(n, M) consists of one giant component and some number of small unicyclic components. We go on to study the distribution of cycles in unicyclic components as they emerge at the beginning of the process and disappear when captured by the giant one.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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