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The Probability That a Random Multigraph is Simple

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2009

SVANTE JANSON
SVANTE JANSON*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University, PO Box 480, SE-751 06 Uppsala, Sweden (e-mail: svante.janson@math.uu.sehttp://www.math.uu.se/~svante/)
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Abstract

Consider a random multigraph G* with given vertex degrees d1,. . .,dn, constructed by the configuration model. We show that, asymptotically for a sequence of such multigraphs with the number of edges , the probability that the multigraph is simple stays away from 0 if and only if . This was previously known only under extra assumptions on the maximum degree maxidi. We also give an asymptotic formula for this probability, extending previous results by several authors.

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