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Perfect Matchings in Random Subgraphs of Regular Bipartite Graphs

Authors :
Glebov, Roman
Luria, Zur
Simkin, Michael
Publication Year :
2018

Abstract

Consider the random process in which the edges of a graph $G$ are added one by one in a random order. A classical result states that if $G$ is the complete graph $K_{2n}$ or the complete bipartite graph $K_{n,n}$, then typically a perfect matching appears at the moment at which the last isolated vertex disappears. We extend this result to arbitrary $k$-regular bipartite graphs $G$ on $2n$ vertices for all $k = \omega \left( \frac{n}{\log^{1/3} n} \right)$. Surprisingly, this is not the case for smaller values of $k$. Using a construction due to Goel, Kapralov and Khanna, we show that there exist bipartite $k$-regular graphs in which the last isolated vertex disappears long before a perfect matching appears.<br />Comment: Corrected typo

Subjects

Subjects :
Mathematics - Combinatorics

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1805.06944
Document Type :
Working Paper