Independent sets in random subgraphs of the hypercube
Abstract
Let $Q_{d,p}$ be the random subgraph of the $d$-dimensional hypercube $\{0,1\}^d$, where each edge is retained independently with probability $p$. We study the asymptotic number of independent sets in $Q_{d,p}$ as $d \to \infty$ for a wide range of parameters $p$, including values of $p$ tending to zero as fast as $\frac{C\log d}{d^{1/3}}$, constant values of $p$, and values of $p$ tending to one. The results extend to the hardcore model on $Q_{d,p}$, and are obtained by studying the closely related antiferromagnetic Ising model on the hypercube, which can be viewed as a positive-temperature hardcore model on the hypercube. These results generalize previous results by Galvin, Jenssen and Perkins on the hard-core model on the hypercube, corresponding to the case $p=1$, which extended Korshunov and Sapozhenko's classical result on the asymptotic number of independent sets in the hypercube.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- January 2022
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2201.06127
- Bibcode:
- 2022arXiv220106127K
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Combinatorics;
- Mathematics - Probability;
- 60C05;
- 82B20;
- 05C69;
- 05C80;
- 05C30
- E-Print:
- 44 pages