Counting directed acyclic and elementary digraphs

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Abstract: Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) can be characterised as directed graphs whose strongly connected components are isolated vertices. Using this restriction on the strong components, we discover that when m=cn, where m is the number of directed edges, n is the number of vertices, and c<1, the asymptotic probability that a random digraph is acyclic is an explicit function p(c), such that p(0)=1 and p(1)=0. When m=n(1+mun1/3), the asymptotic behaviour changes, and the probability that a digraph is acyclic becomes n1/3C(mu), where C(mu) is an explicit function of mu. {L}uczak and Seierstad (2009, Random Structures & Algorithms, 35(3), 271--293) showed that, as muoinfty, the strongly connected components of a random digraph with n vertices and m=n(1+mun1/3) directed edges are, with high probability, only isolated vertices and cycles. We call such digraphs elementary digraphs. We express the probability that a random digraph is elementary as a function of mu. Those results are obtained using techniques from analytic combinatorics, developed in particular to study random graphs.









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