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Sub-Gaussian Tails for the Number of Triangles in G(n, p)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2010

GUY WOLFOVITZ
GUY WOLFOVITZ*
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel (e-mail: gwolfovi@cs.haifa.ac.il)
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Abstract

Let X be the random variable that counts the number of triangles in the binomial random graph G(n, p). We show that for some positive constant c, the probability that X deviates from its expectation by at least λVar(X)1/2 is at most e−cλ2, provided p = o(1), λ = ω() and λ ≤ (n3p3 + n4p5)1/6.

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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , January 2011 , pp. 155 - 160
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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