Random Graphs

ISBN-13: 9780521440813 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 268 str.

V. F. Kolchin; G. -C Rota; B. Doran

Opis

The book is devoted to the study of classical combinatorial structures such as random graphs, permutations, and systems of random linear equations in finite fields. The author shows how the application of the generalized scheme of allocation in the study of random graphs and permutations reduces the combinatorial problems to classical problems of probability theory on the summation of independent random variables. He offers recent research by Russian mathematicians, including a discussion of equations containing an unknown permutation, and the first English-language presentation of techniques for solving systems of random linear equations in finite fields. These new results will interest specialists in combinatorics and probability theory and will also be useful to researchers in applied areas of probabilistic combinatorics such as communication theory, cryptology, and mathematical genetics.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: 'Many of the results appear here for the first time in an English translation. The book is therefore to be welcomed for bringing this material to a wider audience.' W. T. Gowers, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society

Spis treści

Preface; 1. The generalized scheme of allocation and the components of random graphs; 2. Evolution of random graphs; 3. Systems of random linear equations in GF(2); 4. Random permutations; 5. Equations containing an unknown permutation; Bibliography; Index.