A Large Deviation Result on the Number of Small Subgraphs of a Random Graph

  • Authors:
  • Van H. Vu

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, USA (e-mail: vanhavu@@microsoft.com)

  • Venue:
  • Combinatorics, Probability and Computing
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Fix a small graph H and let YH denote the number of copies of H in the random graph G(n, p). We investigate the degree of concentration of YH around its mean, motivated by the following questions.• What is the upper tail probability Pr(YH ≥ (1 + ε)𝔼(YH))?• For which λ does YH have sub-Gaussian behaviour, namely***** Insert formula here *****where c is a positive constant?• Fixing λ = ω(1) in advance, find a reasonably small tail T = T(λ) such that***** Insert formula here *****We prove a general concentration result which contains a partial answer to each of these questions. The heart of the proof is a new martingale inequality, due to J. H. Kim and the present author [13].