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A preferential attachment process approaching the Rado graph

Part of: Graph theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2020

Richard Elwes
Richard Elwes*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, UK (r.h.elwes@leeds.ac.uk)
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Abstract

We consider a simple preferential attachment graph process, which begins with a finite graph and in which a new (t + 1)st vertex is added at each subsequent time step t that is connected to each previous vertex u ≤ t with probability du(t)/t, where du(t) is the degree of u at time t. We analyse the graph obtained as the infinite limit of this process, and we show that, as long as the initial finite graph is neither edgeless nor complete, with probability 1 the outcome will be a copy of the Rado graph augmented with a finite number of either isolated or universal vertices.

Keywords

preferential attachmentRado graphscale-free networkErdős–Rényi graph

MSC classification

Primary: 05C80: Random graphs
Secondary: 05C63: Infinite graphs

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 63 , Issue 2 , May 2020 , pp. 443 - 455
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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