Perfect matching in random bipartite graph - with fixed probability
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as a follow up from this question :
Suppose that we have a simpler problem, where the probability $p$ is fixed. Of course we could use the above result to proove that almost every graph in the model $mathcal{G}_{n,n,p}$ contains a perfect matching, saying for instance that $$ p > frac{sqrt{n} + log{n}}{n}$$ for big enough $n$.
However, couldn't we find a more direct result?
I've been looking at the probability of findind a set $S$ (size $k$) giving a contradiction for Hall's mariage theorem. With $q=1-p$, we need each element of $S$ not connected to the $n-k-1$ elements not in $N(S)$, therefore :
$$ Pr[ |N(S)|<|S| ] leq q^{nk-k(k-1)}$$
And
$$Pr[nexists text{ a perfect matching}] leq sum_{k=1}^n binom{n}{k}q^{nk-k(k-1)}$$
But from there, trying to proove that this sum tends to 0, simple binomial approximation $sim n^k/k!$ gives too large a bound. Would you recommand any other calculation?
Thanks
graph-theory random-graphs matching-theory
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as a follow up from this question :
Suppose that we have a simpler problem, where the probability $p$ is fixed. Of course we could use the above result to proove that almost every graph in the model $mathcal{G}_{n,n,p}$ contains a perfect matching, saying for instance that $$ p > frac{sqrt{n} + log{n}}{n}$$ for big enough $n$.
However, couldn't we find a more direct result?
I've been looking at the probability of findind a set $S$ (size $k$) giving a contradiction for Hall's mariage theorem. With $q=1-p$, we need each element of $S$ not connected to the $n-k-1$ elements not in $N(S)$, therefore :
$$ Pr[ |N(S)|<|S| ] leq q^{nk-k(k-1)}$$
And
$$Pr[nexists text{ a perfect matching}] leq sum_{k=1}^n binom{n}{k}q^{nk-k(k-1)}$$
But from there, trying to proove that this sum tends to 0, simple binomial approximation $sim n^k/k!$ gives too large a bound. Would you recommand any other calculation?
Thanks
graph-theory random-graphs matching-theory
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as a follow up from this question :
Suppose that we have a simpler problem, where the probability $p$ is fixed. Of course we could use the above result to proove that almost every graph in the model $mathcal{G}_{n,n,p}$ contains a perfect matching, saying for instance that $$ p > frac{sqrt{n} + log{n}}{n}$$ for big enough $n$.
However, couldn't we find a more direct result?
I've been looking at the probability of findind a set $S$ (size $k$) giving a contradiction for Hall's mariage theorem. With $q=1-p$, we need each element of $S$ not connected to the $n-k-1$ elements not in $N(S)$, therefore :
$$ Pr[ |N(S)|<|S| ] leq q^{nk-k(k-1)}$$
And
$$Pr[nexists text{ a perfect matching}] leq sum_{k=1}^n binom{n}{k}q^{nk-k(k-1)}$$
But from there, trying to proove that this sum tends to 0, simple binomial approximation $sim n^k/k!$ gives too large a bound. Would you recommand any other calculation?
Thanks
graph-theory random-graphs matching-theory
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as a follow up from this question :
Suppose that we have a simpler problem, where the probability $p$ is fixed. Of course we could use the above result to proove that almost every graph in the model $mathcal{G}_{n,n,p}$ contains a perfect matching, saying for instance that $$ p > frac{sqrt{n} + log{n}}{n}$$ for big enough $n$.
However, couldn't we find a more direct result?
I've been looking at the probability of findind a set $S$ (size $k$) giving a contradiction for Hall's mariage theorem. With $q=1-p$, we need each element of $S$ not connected to the $n-k-1$ elements not in $N(S)$, therefore :
$$ Pr[ |N(S)|<|S| ] leq q^{nk-k(k-1)}$$
And
$$Pr[nexists text{ a perfect matching}] leq sum_{k=1}^n binom{n}{k}q^{nk-k(k-1)}$$
But from there, trying to proove that this sum tends to 0, simple binomial approximation $sim n^k/k!$ gives too large a bound. Would you recommand any other calculation?
Thanks
graph-theory random-graphs matching-theory
graph-theory random-graphs matching-theory
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Many approximations to the binomial $binom nk$ are not symmetric in $k$ and $n-k$, so they perform badly when $k$ is close to $n$. (For example, $frac{n^k}{k!}$ is somewhere around $e^n$ when $k=n$, even though actually $binom nn = 1$.)
Here, the sum is almost but not quite symmetric: we can write the power of $q$ as $q^{k(n+1-k)} < q^{k(n-k)}$, and the latter is symmetric. So we can bound the sum by
$$
2 sum_{k=1}^{n/2} binom nk q^{k(n-k)}
$$
and avoid the problematic values of $k$, getting a sum that's easy to bound using your approximation. It's even enough to write $binom nk le n^k$ and get $binom nk q^{k(n-k)} le (n cdot q^{n-k})^k le (n cdot q^{n/2})^k$.
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Many approximations to the binomial $binom nk$ are not symmetric in $k$ and $n-k$, so they perform badly when $k$ is close to $n$. (For example, $frac{n^k}{k!}$ is somewhere around $e^n$ when $k=n$, even though actually $binom nn = 1$.)
Here, the sum is almost but not quite symmetric: we can write the power of $q$ as $q^{k(n+1-k)} < q^{k(n-k)}$, and the latter is symmetric. So we can bound the sum by
$$
2 sum_{k=1}^{n/2} binom nk q^{k(n-k)}
$$
and avoid the problematic values of $k$, getting a sum that's easy to bound using your approximation. It's even enough to write $binom nk le n^k$ and get $binom nk q^{k(n-k)} le (n cdot q^{n-k})^k le (n cdot q^{n/2})^k$.
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Many approximations to the binomial $binom nk$ are not symmetric in $k$ and $n-k$, so they perform badly when $k$ is close to $n$. (For example, $frac{n^k}{k!}$ is somewhere around $e^n$ when $k=n$, even though actually $binom nn = 1$.)
Here, the sum is almost but not quite symmetric: we can write the power of $q$ as $q^{k(n+1-k)} < q^{k(n-k)}$, and the latter is symmetric. So we can bound the sum by
$$
2 sum_{k=1}^{n/2} binom nk q^{k(n-k)}
$$
and avoid the problematic values of $k$, getting a sum that's easy to bound using your approximation. It's even enough to write $binom nk le n^k$ and get $binom nk q^{k(n-k)} le (n cdot q^{n-k})^k le (n cdot q^{n/2})^k$.
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Many approximations to the binomial $binom nk$ are not symmetric in $k$ and $n-k$, so they perform badly when $k$ is close to $n$. (For example, $frac{n^k}{k!}$ is somewhere around $e^n$ when $k=n$, even though actually $binom nn = 1$.)
Here, the sum is almost but not quite symmetric: we can write the power of $q$ as $q^{k(n+1-k)} < q^{k(n-k)}$, and the latter is symmetric. So we can bound the sum by
$$
2 sum_{k=1}^{n/2} binom nk q^{k(n-k)}
$$
and avoid the problematic values of $k$, getting a sum that's easy to bound using your approximation. It's even enough to write $binom nk le n^k$ and get $binom nk q^{k(n-k)} le (n cdot q^{n-k})^k le (n cdot q^{n/2})^k$.
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Many approximations to the binomial $binom nk$ are not symmetric in $k$ and $n-k$, so they perform badly when $k$ is close to $n$. (For example, $frac{n^k}{k!}$ is somewhere around $e^n$ when $k=n$, even though actually $binom nn = 1$.)
Here, the sum is almost but not quite symmetric: we can write the power of $q$ as $q^{k(n+1-k)} < q^{k(n-k)}$, and the latter is symmetric. So we can bound the sum by
$$
2 sum_{k=1}^{n/2} binom nk q^{k(n-k)}
$$
and avoid the problematic values of $k$, getting a sum that's easy to bound using your approximation. It's even enough to write $binom nk le n^k$ and get $binom nk q^{k(n-k)} le (n cdot q^{n-k})^k le (n cdot q^{n/2})^k$.
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