The cover time of the preferential attachment graph

  • Authors:
  • Colin Cooper;Alan Frieze

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, King's College, University of London, London WC2R 2LS, UK;Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The preferential attachment graph G"m(n) is a random graph formed by adding a new vertex at each time step, with m edges which point to vertices selected at random with probability proportional to their degree. Thus at time n there are n vertices and mn edges. This process yields a graph which has been proposed as a simple model of the world wide web [A. Barabasi, R. Albert, Emergence of scaling in random networks, Science 286 (1999) 509-512]. In this paper we show that if m=2 then whp the cover time of a simple random walk on G"m(n) is asymptotic to 2mm-1nlogn.