Anti-concentration for subgraph counts in random graphs
Anti-concentration for subgraph counts in random graphs
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10.1214/20-aop1490
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2019-05
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J. Fox;Matthew Kwan;Lisa Sauermann
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作者:
J. Fox;Matthew Kwan;Lisa Sauermann
Fix a graph $H$ and some $p\in (0,1)$, and let $X_H$ be the number of copies of $H$ in a random graph $G(n,p)$. Random variables of this form have been intensively studied since the foundational work of Erdős and Renyi. There has been a great deal of progress over the years on the large-scale behaviour of $X_H$, but the more challenging problem of understanding the small-ball probabilities has remained poorly understood until now. More precisely, how likely can it be that $X_H$ falls in some small interval or is equal to some particular value? In this paper we prove the almost-optimal result that if $H$ is connected then for any $x\in \mathbb{N}$ we have $\Pr(X_H=x)\le n^{1-v(H)+o(1)}$. Our proof proceeds by iteratively breaking $X_H$ into different components which fluctuate at "different scales", and relies on a new anticoncentration inequality for random vectors that behave "almost linearly".