Creation and growth of components in a random hypergraph process

  • Authors:
  • Vlady Ravelomanana;Alphonse Laza Rijamamy

  • Affiliations:
  • LIPN, UMR CNRS 7030, Université Paris XIII, Villetaneuse, France;LIPN, UMR CNRS 7030, Université Paris XIII, Villetaneuse, France

  • Venue:
  • COCOON'06 Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Computing and Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Denote by an ℓ-component a connected b-uniform hypergraph with k edges and k(b–1) – ℓ vertices. We prove that the expected number of creations of ℓ-component during a random hypergraph process tends to 1 as ℓ and b tend to ∞ with the total number of vertices n such that $\ell = o\left( \sqrt[3]{\frac{n}{b}} \right)$. Under the same conditions, we also show that the expected number of vertices that ever belong to an ℓ-component is approximately 121/3 (b–1)1/3 ℓ1/3n2/3. As an immediate consequence, it follows that with high probability the largest ℓ-component during the process is of size O( (b–1)1/3 ℓ1/3n2/3 ). Our results give insight about the size of giant components inside the phase transition of random hypergraphs.