The distribution of the length of the longest path in random acyclic orientations of a complete bipartite graph

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Main Authors: Khera, Jessica, Lundberg, Erik
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author Khera, Jessica
Lundberg, Erik
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Lundberg, Erik
contents Randomly sampling an acyclic orientation on the complete bipartite graph $K_{n,k}$ with parts of size $n$ and $k$, we investigate the length of the longest path. We provide a probability generating function for the distribution of the longest path length, and we use Analytic Combinatorics to perform asymptotic analysis of the probability distribution in the case of equal part sizes $n = k$ tending toward infinity. We show that the distribution is asymptotically Gaussian, and we obtain precise asymptotics for the mean and variance. These results address a question asked by Peter J. Cameron. Keywords: bipartite graph, directed graph, random graph, acyclic orientation, poly-Bernoulli numbers, lonesum matrices, generating function, analytic combinatorics, asymptotics.
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spellingShingle The distribution of the length of the longest path in random acyclic orientations of a complete bipartite graph
Khera, Jessica
Lundberg, Erik
Combinatorics
Complex Variables
Probability
05A16, 05C20, 05C30, 60C05
Randomly sampling an acyclic orientation on the complete bipartite graph $K_{n,k}$ with parts of size $n$ and $k$, we investigate the length of the longest path. We provide a probability generating function for the distribution of the longest path length, and we use Analytic Combinatorics to perform asymptotic analysis of the probability distribution in the case of equal part sizes $n = k$ tending toward infinity. We show that the distribution is asymptotically Gaussian, and we obtain precise asymptotics for the mean and variance. These results address a question asked by Peter J. Cameron. Keywords: bipartite graph, directed graph, random graph, acyclic orientation, poly-Bernoulli numbers, lonesum matrices, generating function, analytic combinatorics, asymptotics.
title The distribution of the length of the longest path in random acyclic orientations of a complete bipartite graph
topic Combinatorics
Complex Variables
Probability
05A16, 05C20, 05C30, 60C05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.12716