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General percolation and random graphs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Colin McDiarmid*
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
*
Postal address: Wolfson College, Oxford OX2 6UD, U.K.

Abstract

I introduce some useful general results concerning clutter percolation and families of binary random variables arranged in independent subfamilies, and give several applications to the study of random graphs and digraphs.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1981 

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Footnotes

This research was supported in part by Canadian NRC grant A9211.

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