Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B ( IF 1.2 ) Pub Date : 2022-03-15 , DOI: 10.1016/j.jctb.2022.03.001 Noga Alon 1, 2 , Colin Defant 1 , Noah Kravitz 1
Given graphs X and Y with vertex sets and of the same cardinality, the friends-and-strangers graph is the graph whose vertex set consists of all bijections , where two bijections σ and are adjacent if they agree everywhere except for two adjacent vertices such that and are adjacent in Y. The most fundamental question that one can ask about these friends-and-strangers graphs is whether or not they are connected; we address this problem from two different perspectives. First, we address the case of “typical” X and Y by proving that if X and Y are independent Erdős-Rényi random graphs with n vertices and edge probability p, then the threshold probability guaranteeing the connectedness of with high probability is . Second, we address the case of “extremal” X and Y by proving that the smallest minimum degree of the n-vertex graphs X and Y that guarantees the connectedness of is between and . When X and Y are bipartite, a parity obstruction forces to be disconnected. In this bipartite setting, we prove analogous “typical” and “extremal” results concerning when has exactly 2 connected components; for the extremal question, we obtain a nearly exact result.
中文翻译:
朋友和陌生人图的典型和极值方面
给定带有顶点集的图X和Y和相同基数的朋友和陌生人图是顶点集由所有双射组成的图, 其中两个双射σ和如果它们在除两个相邻顶点之外的所有地方都一致,则它们是相邻的这样和在Y中相邻。关于这些朋友和陌生人图,人们可以问的最基本的问题是它们是否相互关联;我们从两个不同的角度来解决这个问题。首先,我们通过证明如果X和Y是具有n个顶点和边概率p的独立 Erdős-Rényi 随机图来解决“典型” X和Y的情况,那么保证连接性的阈值概率很有可能是. 其次,我们通过证明保证连接性的n 个顶点图X和Y的最小最小度来解决“极值” X和Y的情况在。。。之间和. 当X和Y是二分时,奇偶阻塞力被断开。在这种二分设置中,我们证明了关于何时的类似“典型”和“极端”结果正好有 2 个连通分量;对于极值问题,我们得到了几乎精确的结果。