Vertex percolation on expander graphs

DOI10.1016/J.EJC.2008.07.001MaRDI QIDQ1003582zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sonny Ben-Shimon, Michael Krivelevich

Publication date 4 March 2009

Published in European Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2296

zbMATH Keywords

\(\beta\)-expander

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random graphs (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C80) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35)

Abstract: We say that a graph $G=(V,E)$ on $n$ vertices is a $$-expander for some constant $$ if every $UsubseteqV$ of cardinality $|U|leqfracn2$ satisfies $$ where $N_G(U)$ denotes the neighborhood of $U$. In this work we explore the process of deleting vertices of a $$-expander independently at random with probability $n^{-alpha}$ for some constant $alpha>0$, and study the properties of the resulting graph. Our main result states that as $n$ tends to infinity, the deletion process performed on a $$-expander graph of bounded degree will result with high probability in a graph composed of a giant component containing $n-o(n)$ vertices that is in itself an expander graph, and constant size components. We proceed by applying the main result to expander graphs with a positive spectral gap. In the particular case of $(n,d,lambda)$-graphs, that are such expanders, we compute the values of $alpha$, under additional constraints on the graph, for which with high probability the resulting graph will stay connected, or will be composed of a giant component and isolated vertices. As a graph sampled from the uniform probability space of $d$-regular graphs with high probability is an expander and meets the additional constraints, this result strengthens a recent result due to Greenhill, Holt and Wormald about vertex percolation on random $d$-regular graphs. We conclude by showing that performing the above described deletion process on graphs that expand sub-linear sets by an unbounded expansion ratio, with high probability results in a connected expander graph.

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