3-star factors in random d-regular graphs

AbstractThe small subgraph conditioning method first appeared when Robinson and the second author showed the almost sure hamiltonicity of random d-regular graphs. Since then it has been used to study the almost sure existence of, and the asymptotic distribution of, regular spanning subgraphs of various types in random d-regular graphs and hypergraphs. In this paper, we use the method to prove the almost sure existence of 3-star factors in random d-regular graphs. This is essentially the first application of the method to non-regular subgraphs in such graphs

Rainbow Hamilton cycles in random regular graphs

A rainbow subgraph of an edge-coloured graph has all edges of distinct colours. A random d-regular graph with d even, and having edges coloured randomly with d/2 of each of n colours, has a rainbow Hamilton cycle with probability tending to 1 as n tends to infinity, provided d is at least 8.Comment: 16 page

Sudden emergence of q-regular subgraphs in random graphs

We investigate the computationally hard problem whether a random graph of finite average vertex degree has an extensively large $q$-regular subgraph, i.e., a subgraph with all vertices having degree equal to $q$. We reformulate this problem as a constraint-satisfaction problem, and solve it using the cavity method of statistical physics at zero temperature. For $q=3$, we find that the first large $q$-regular subgraphs appear discontinuously at an average vertex degree c_\reg{3} \simeq 3.3546 and contain immediately about 24% of all vertices in the graph. This transition is extremely close to (but different from) the well-known 3-core percolation point c_\cor{3} \simeq 3.3509. For $q>3$, the $q$-regular subgraph percolation threshold is found to coincide with that of the $q$-core.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure

Combinatorial theorems relative to a random set

We describe recent advances in the study of random analogues of combinatorial theorems.Comment: 26 pages. Submitted to Proceedings of the ICM 201