{"title":"Down‐set thresholds","authors":"Benjamin Gunby, Xiaoyu He, Bhargav P. Narayanan","doi":"10.1002/rsa.21148","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We elucidate the relationship between the threshold and the expectation‐threshold of a down‐set. Qualitatively, our main result demonstrates that there exist down‐sets with polynomial gaps between their thresholds and expectation‐thresholds; in particular, the logarithmic gap predictions of Kahn–Kalai and Talagrand (recently proved by Park–Pham and Frankston–Kahn–Narayanan–Park) about up‐sets do not apply to down‐sets. Quantitatively, we show that any collection 𝒢 of graphs on [n] that covers the family of all triangle‐free graphs on [n] satisfies the inequality ∑G∈𝒢exp(−δe(Gc)/n)<1/2 for some universal δ>0 , and this is essentially best‐possible.","PeriodicalId":54523,"journal":{"name":"Random Structures & Algorithms","volume":"1 1","pages":"442 - 456"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Random Structures & Algorithms","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1002/rsa.21148","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We elucidate the relationship between the threshold and the expectation‐threshold of a down‐set. Qualitatively, our main result demonstrates that there exist down‐sets with polynomial gaps between their thresholds and expectation‐thresholds; in particular, the logarithmic gap predictions of Kahn–Kalai and Talagrand (recently proved by Park–Pham and Frankston–Kahn–Narayanan–Park) about up‐sets do not apply to down‐sets. Quantitatively, we show that any collection 𝒢 of graphs on [n] that covers the family of all triangle‐free graphs on [n] satisfies the inequality ∑G∈𝒢exp(−δe(Gc)/n)<1/2 for some universal δ>0 , and this is essentially best‐possible.
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It is the aim of this journal to meet two main objectives: to cover the latest research on discrete random structures, and to present applications of such research to problems in combinatorics and computer science. The goal is to provide a natural home for a significant body of current research, and a useful forum for ideas on future studies in randomness.
Results concerning random graphs, hypergraphs, matroids, trees, mappings, permutations, matrices, sets and orders, as well as stochastic graph processes and networks are presented with particular emphasis on the use of probabilistic methods in combinatorics as developed by Paul Erdõs. The journal focuses on probabilistic algorithms, average case analysis of deterministic algorithms, and applications of probabilistic methods to cryptography, data structures, searching and sorting. The journal also devotes space to such areas of probability theory as percolation, random walks and combinatorial aspects of probability.