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Random Finite Topologies and their Thresholds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2001

C. F. MACLEAN
Affiliation:
Ecole Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France (e-mail: maclean@clipper.ens.fr)
NEIL O'CONNELL
Affiliation:
BRIMS, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Stoke Gifford, Bristol BS34 8QZ, England (e-mail: noc@hplb.hpl.hp.com)

Abstract

For each integer n, there is a natural family of probability distributions on the set of topologies on a set of n elements, parametrized by an integer variable, m. We will describe how these are constructed and analysed, and find threshold functions (for m in terms of n) for various topological properties; we focus attention on connectivity and the size of the largest component.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2001 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

An earlier version of this article appeared as BRIMS Technical Report HPL-BRIMS-9718.