Moderate Deviations of Triangle Counts in the Erdős-Rényi Random Graph $G(n,m)$: The Lower Tail

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Main Authors: Alvarado, José, Dias, Gabriel, Griffiths, Simon
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author Alvarado, José
Dias, Gabriel
Griffiths, Simon
author_facet Alvarado, José
Dias, Gabriel
Griffiths, Simon
contents Let $N_{\triangle}(G)$ be the number of triangles in a graph $G$. In [14] and [25] (respectively) the following bounds were proved on the lower tail behaviour of triangle counts in the dense Erdős-Rényi random graphs $G_m\sim G(n,m)$: \[ \mathbb{P}\big(N_{\triangle}(G_m) \, < \, (1-δ)\mathbb{E}[N_{\triangle}(G_m)]\big) \,=\, \exp\left(-Θ\left(δ^2n^3\right)\right) \qquad \text{if $n^{-3/2}\ll δ\ll n^{-1}$} \] and \[ \mathbb{P}\big(N_{\triangle}(G_m) \, < \, (1-δ)\mathbb{E}[N_{\triangle}(G_m)]\big) \,=\, \exp\left(-Θ(δ^{2/3}n^2) \right) \qquad \text{if $n^{-3/4} \ll δ\ll 1$.} \] Neeman, Radin and Sadun [25] also conjectured that the probability should be of the form $\exp\left(-Θ\left(δ^2n^3\right)\right)$ in the "missing interval" $n^{-1}\ll δ\ll n^{-3/4}$. We prove this conjecture. As part of our proof we also prove that some random graph statistics, related to degrees and codegrees, are normally distributed with high probability.
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spellingShingle Moderate Deviations of Triangle Counts in the Erdős-Rényi Random Graph $G(n,m)$: The Lower Tail
Alvarado, José
Dias, Gabriel
Griffiths, Simon
Combinatorics
Probability
Let $N_{\triangle}(G)$ be the number of triangles in a graph $G$. In [14] and [25] (respectively) the following bounds were proved on the lower tail behaviour of triangle counts in the dense Erdős-Rényi random graphs $G_m\sim G(n,m)$: \[ \mathbb{P}\big(N_{\triangle}(G_m) \, < \, (1-δ)\mathbb{E}[N_{\triangle}(G_m)]\big) \,=\, \exp\left(-Θ\left(δ^2n^3\right)\right) \qquad \text{if $n^{-3/2}\ll δ\ll n^{-1}$} \] and \[ \mathbb{P}\big(N_{\triangle}(G_m) \, < \, (1-δ)\mathbb{E}[N_{\triangle}(G_m)]\big) \,=\, \exp\left(-Θ(δ^{2/3}n^2) \right) \qquad \text{if $n^{-3/4} \ll δ\ll 1$.} \] Neeman, Radin and Sadun [25] also conjectured that the probability should be of the form $\exp\left(-Θ\left(δ^2n^3\right)\right)$ in the "missing interval" $n^{-1}\ll δ\ll n^{-3/4}$. We prove this conjecture. As part of our proof we also prove that some random graph statistics, related to degrees and codegrees, are normally distributed with high probability.
title Moderate Deviations of Triangle Counts in the Erdős-Rényi Random Graph $G(n,m)$: The Lower Tail
topic Combinatorics
Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13792