The diameter of a random subgraph of the hypercube

  • Authors:
  • Tomáš Kulich

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina, 84248 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

  • Venue:
  • Random Structures & Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper we present an estimation for the diameter of random subgraph of a hypercube. In the article by A. V. Kostochka (Random Struct Algorithms 4 (1993) 215–229) the authors obtained lower and upper bound for the diameter. According to their work, the inequalities n + mp ≤ D(Gn) ≤ n + mp + 8 almost surely hold as n → ∞, where n is dimension of the hypercube and mp depends only on sampling probabilities. It is not clear from their work, whether the values of the diameter are really distributed on these 9 values, or whether the inequality can be sharpened. In this paper we introduce several new ideas, using which we are able to obtain an exact result: D(Gn) = n + mp (almost surely). © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 2012 © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.