Semi-random process without replacement
Abstract
Semi-random processes involve an adaptive decision-maker, whose goal is to achieve some pre-determined objective in an online randomized environment. We introduce and study a semi-random multigraph process, which forms a no-replacement variant of the process that was introduced by Ben-Eliezer, Hefetz, Kronenberg, Parczyk, Shikhelman and Stojaković (2020). The process starts with an empty graph on the vertex set $[n]$. For every positive integers $q$ and $1\leq r\leq n$, in the $((q-1)n+r)$th round of the process, the decision-maker, called \emph{Builder}, is offered the vertex $\pi_q(r)$, where $\pi_1, \pi_2, \ldots$ is a sequence of permutations in $S_n$, chosen independently and uniformly at random. Builder then chooses an additional vertex (according to a strategy of his choice) and connects it by an edge to $\pi_q(r)$. For several natural graph properties, such as $k$-connectivity, minimum degree at least $k$, and building a given spanning graph (labeled or unlabeled), we determine the typical number of rounds Builder needs in order to construct a graph having the desired property. Along the way we introduce and analyze an urn model which may also have independent interest.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- September 2020
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2009.07589
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2009.07589
- Bibcode:
- 2020arXiv200907589G
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Combinatorics
- E-Print:
- Journal of Combinatorics, Vol. 14, No. 2 (2023), pp. 167-196