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Main Authors: Brown, Jason I., McMullin, Isaac
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09059
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  • Consider a connected graph $G$, and assume that every edge fails independently with probability $q$. The {\em (all-terminal) reliability polynomial} is the probability in $q$ that the spanning connected subgraph of operational edges is connected. In this paper we focus on the real roots of reliability polynomials ({\em reliability roots}). We prove that almost every graph has a nonreal reliability root, and that the reliability polynomials of graphs have roots dense on the interval $[β,0]$ where $β\approx-0.5707202942$.