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Connectivity of random graphs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Chang C. Y. Dorea*
Affiliation:
Universidade de Brasilia
*
Permanent address: Depto de Matemática-IE, Universidade de Brasilia, 70910 Brasilia DF, Brazil. From 1982 to 1984 the author will be a Visiting Scholar at Iowa State University.

Abstract

We consider a random field {Xij, i, j = 1, ···, n} where the random variables Xij takes on values 1 or 0. The collection {Xij } can be viewed as a random graph with nodes {1, ···, n} by interpreting X ij = 1 as the existence of an arc emanating from the node i to the node j. Such a representation will enable us to study ordered and unordered graphs, being also the general representation of a random graph. In this note the probability that the graph is connected is computed under the condition that ΣiXki=l for k = 1, · ··, n. This result extends Ross's recent theorems on connectivity of random graphs.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1982 

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