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Subcritical graph classes containing all planar graphs
We construct minor-closed addable families of graphs that are subcritical and
contain all planar graphs. This contradicts (one direction of) a well-known
conjecture of Noy
Logical limit laws for minor-closed classes of graphs
Let be an addable, minor-closed class of graphs. We prove that
the zero-one law holds in monadic second-order logic (MSO) for the random graph
drawn uniformly at random from all {\em connected} graphs in on
vertices, and the convergence law in MSO holds if we draw uniformly at
random from all graphs in on vertices. We also prove analogues
of these results for the class of graphs embeddable on a fixed surface,
provided we restrict attention to first order logic (FO). Moreover, the
limiting probability that a given FO sentence is satisfied is independent of
the surface . We also prove that the closure of the set of limiting
probabilities is always the finite union of at least two disjoint intervals,
and that it is the same for FO and MSO. For the classes of forests and planar
graphs we are able to determine the closure of the set of limiting
probabilities precisely. For planar graphs it consists of exactly 108
intervals, each of length . Finally, we analyse
examples of non-addable classes where the behaviour is quite different. For
instance, the zero-one law does not hold for the random caterpillar on
vertices, even in FO.Comment: minor changes; accepted for publication by JCT
Random graphs from a weighted minor-closed class
There has been much recent interest in random graphs sampled uniformly from
the n-vertex graphs in a suitable minor-closed class, such as the class of all
planar graphs. Here we use combinatorial and probabilistic methods to
investigate a more general model. We consider random graphs from a
`well-behaved' class of graphs: examples of such classes include all
minor-closed classes of graphs with 2-connected excluded minors (such as
forests, series-parallel graphs and planar graphs), the class of graphs
embeddable on any given surface, and the class of graphs with at most k
vertex-disjoint cycles. Also, we give weights to edges and components to
specify probabilities, so that our random graphs correspond to the random
cluster model, appropriately conditioned.
We find that earlier results extend naturally in both directions, to general
well-behaved classes of graphs, and to the weighted framework, for example
results concerning the probability of a random graph being connected; and we
also give results on the 2-core which are new even for the uniform (unweighted)
case.Comment: 46 page
Random graphs from a block-stable class
A class of graphs is called block-stable when a graph is in the class if and
only if each of its blocks is. We show that, as for trees, for most -vertex
graphs in such a class, each vertex is in at most blocks, and each path passes through at most blocks.
These results extend to `weakly block-stable' classes of graphs
Connectivity for bridge-addable monotone graph classes
A class A of labelled graphs is bridge-addable if for all graphs G in A and
all vertices u and v in distinct connected components of G, the graph obtained
by adding an edge between u and u is also in A; the class A is monotone if for
all G in A and all subgraphs H of G, H is also in A. We show that for any
bridge-addable, monotone class A whose elements have vertex set 1,...,n, the
probability that a uniformly random element of A is connected is at least
(1-o_n(1)) e^{-1/2}, where o_n(1) tends to zero as n tends to infinity. This
establishes the special case of a conjecture of McDiarmid, Steger and Welsh
when the condition of monotonicity is added. This result has also been obtained
independently by Kang and Panagiotiou (2011).Comment: 11 page
On the probability of planarity of a random graph near the critical point
Consider the uniform random graph with vertices and edges.
Erd\H{o}s and R\'enyi (1960) conjectured that the limit
\lim_{n \to \infty} \Pr\{G(n,\textstyle{n\over 2}) is planar}} exists
and is a constant strictly between 0 and 1. \L uczak, Pittel and Wierman (1994)
proved this conjecture and Janson, \L uczak, Knuth and Pittel (1993) gave lower
and upper bounds for this probability.
In this paper we determine the exact probability of a random graph being
planar near the critical point . For each , we find an exact
analytic expression for
In particular, we obtain .
We extend these results to classes of graphs closed under taking minors. As
an example, we show that the probability of being
series-parallel converges to 0.98003.
For the sake of completeness and exposition we reprove in a concise way
several basic properties we need of a random graph near the critical point.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figur
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