On the tree-depth of random graphs

  • Authors:
  • G. Perarnau;O. Serra

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

Tree-depth is a parameter introduced under several names as a measure of sparsity of a graph. We compute asymptotic values of the tree-depth of a random graph on n vertices where each edge appears independently with probability p. For dense graphs, np-+~, the tree-depth of a random graph G is aastd(G)=n-O(n/p). Random graphs with p=c/n, have aaslinear tree-depth when c1, the tree-depth is @Q(logn) when c=1 and @Q(loglogn) for c1 is derived from the computation of tree-width and provides a more direct proof of a conjecture by Gao on the linearity of tree-width recently proved by Lee, Lee and Oum (2012) [15]. We also show that, for c=1, every width parameter is aasconstant, and that random regular graphs have linear tree-depth.