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(k+1)-Cores Have k-Factors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2012

SIU ON CHAN  and
MICHAEL MOLLOY
SIU ON CHAN
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada (e-mail: siuon@cs.toronto.edu, molloy@cs.toronto.edu)
MICHAEL MOLLOY
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada (e-mail: siuon@cs.toronto.edu, molloy@cs.toronto.edu)
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Abstract

We prove that the threshold for the appearance of a k-regular subgraph in Gn,p is at most the threshold for the appearance of a non-empty (k+1)-core. This improves a result of Pralat, Verstraete and Wormald [5] and proves a conjecture of Bollobás, Kim and Verstraete [3].

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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 21 , Issue 6 , November 2012 , pp. 882 - 896
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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