Combinatorial approach to the interpolation method and scaling limits in sparse random graphs
Proceedings of the forty-second ACM symposium on Theory of computing
Left and right convergence of graphs with bounded degree
Random Structures & Algorithms
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Recently, Bollobás, Janson and Riordan introduced a family of random graph models producing inhomogeneous graphs with n vertices and Θ(n) edges whose distribution is characterized by a kernel, i.e., a symmetric measurable function κ: [0, 1]2 → [0, ∞). To understand these models, we should like to know when different kernels κ give rise to “similar” graphs, and, given a real-world network, how “similar” is it to a typical graph G(n, κ) derived from a given kernel κ. The analogous questions for dense graphs, with Θ(n2) edges, are answered by recent results of Borgs, Chayes, Lovász, Sós, Szegedy and Vesztergombi, who showed that several natural metrics on graphs are equivalent, and moreover that any sequence of graphs converges in each metric to a graphon, i.e., a kernel taking values in [0, 1]. Possible generalizations of these results to graphs with o(n2) but ω(n) edges are discussed in a companion article [Bollobás and Riordan, London Math Soc Lecture Note Series 365 (2009), 211–287]; here we focus only on graphs with Θ(n) edges, which turn out to be much harder to handle. Many new phenomena occur, and there are a host of plausible metrics to consider; many of these metrics suggest new random graph models and vice versa. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 39, 1-38, 2011 © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.