Homological Connectivity Of Random 2-Complexes

  • Authors:
  • Nathan Linial;Roy Meshulam

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel;Department of Mathematics, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Combinatorica
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Let Δn−1 denote the (n − 1)-dimensional simplex. Let Y be a random 2-dimensional subcomplex of Δn−1 obtained by starting with the full 1-dimensional skeleton of Δn−1 and then adding each 2−simplex independently with probability p. Let $$H_{1} {\left( {Y;{\Bbb F}_{2} } \right)}$$ denote the first homology group of Y with mod 2 coefficients. It is shown that for any function ω(n) that tends to infinity $${\mathop {\lim }\limits_{n \to \infty } }{\kern 1pt} {\kern 1pt} {\text{Prob}}{\left[ {H_{1} {\left( {Y;{\Bbb F}_{2} } \right)} = 0} \right]} = \left\{ {\begin{array}{*{20}c}{{0p = \frac{{2\log n - \omega {\left( n \right)}}}{n}}} \\ {{1p = \frac{{2\log n + \omega {\left( n \right)}}}{n}}} \\ \end{array} } \right.$$