The distribution of sandpile groups of random graphs

DOI10.1090/JAMS/866zbMATH Open1366.05098arXiv1402.5149OpenAlexW1955801390MaRDI QIDQ5280066FDOQ5280066

Authors: Melanie Matchett Wood 

Publication date: 20 July 2017

Published in: Journal of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We determine the distribution of the sandpile group (a.k.a. Jacobian) of the ErdH{o}s-R'enyi random graph G(n,q) as n goes to infinity. Since any particular group appears with asymptotic probability 0 (as we show), it is natural ask for the asymptotic distribution of Sylow p-subgroups of sandpile groups. We prove the distributions of Sylow p-subgroups converge to specific distributions conjectured by Clancy, Leake, and Payne. These distributions are related to, but different from, the Cohen-Lenstra distribution. Our proof involves first finding the expected number of surjections from the sandpile group to any finite abelian group (the "moments" of a random variable valued in finite abelian groups). To achieve this, we show a universality result for the moments of cokernels of random symmetric integral matrices that is strong enough to handle dependence in the diagonal entries. We then show these moments determine a unique distribution despite their p^{k^2}-size growth.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.5149

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zbMATH Keywords

Cohen-Lenstra distributionLittlewood-Offord theorems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random graphs (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C80) Random matrices (algebraic aspects) (15B52) Random matrices (probabilistic aspects) (60B20)

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