Asymptotics in percolation on high-girth expanders

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Abstract: We consider supercritical bond percolation on a family of high-girth d-regular expanders. Alon, Benjamini and Stacey (2004) established that its critical probability for the appearance of a linear-sized ("giant) component is pc=1/(d−1). Our main result recovers the sharp asymptotics of the size and degree distribution of the vertices in the giant and its 2-core at any p>pc. It was further shown in [ABS04] that the second largest component, at any 0<p<1, has size at most nomega for some omega<1. We show that, unlike the situation in the classical ErdH{o}s-R'enyi random graph, the second largest component in bond percolation on a regular expander, even with an arbitrarily large girth, can have size nomega′ for omega′ arbitrarily close to 1. Moreover, as a by-product of that construction, we answer negatively a question of Benjamini (2013) on the relation between the diameter of a component in percolation on expanders and the existence of a giant component. Finally, we establish other typical features of the giant component, e.g., the existence of a linear path.












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