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Every monotone graph property has a sharp threshold
Author(s):
Ehud
Friedgut;
Gil
Kalai
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
124
(1996),
2993-3002.
MSC (1991):
Primary 05C80, 28A35, 60K35
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In their seminal work which initiated random graph theory Erdös and Rényi discovered that many graph properties have sharp thresholds as the number of vertices tends to infinity. We prove a conjecture of Linial that every monotone graph property has a sharp threshold. This follows from the following theorem. Let denote the Hamming space endowed with the probability measure defined by , where . Let be a monotone subset of . We say that is symmetric if there is a transitive permutation group on such that is invariant under . Theorem. For every symmetric monotone , if then for . ( is an absolute constant.)
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Ehud
Friedgut
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, Israel
Email:
ehudf@math.huji.ac.il
Gil
Kalai
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, Israel and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 0854
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03732-X
PII:
S 0002-9939(96)03732-X
Received by editor(s):
March 27, 1995
Additional Notes:
Research supported in part by grants from the Israeli Academy of Sciences, the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, the Sloan foundation and by a grant from the state of Niedersachsen.
Communicated by:
Jeffry N. Kahn
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