The cover time of sparse random graphs

  • Authors:
  • Colin Cooper;Alan Frieze

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Goldsmiths College, London SW14 6NW, UK;Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213

  • Venue:
  • Random Structures & Algorithms - Proceedings from the 12th International Conference “Random Structures and Algorithms”, August1-5, 2005, Poznan, Poland
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We study the cover time of a random walk on graphs Gε Gn,p when $p={c\log n\over n}, c1$. We prove that whp, the cover time, isasymptotic to $c\log({c \over c-1})n\log n$. ©WileyPeriodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 2007