{ "id": "1305.5009", "version": "v3", "published": "2013-05-22T03:20:04.000Z", "updated": "2015-08-04T02:14:50.000Z", "title": "A transition of limiting distributions of large matchings in random graphs", "authors": [ "Pu Gao", "Cristiane M. Sato" ], "categories": [ "math.CO", "math.PR" ], "abstract": "We study the asymptotic distribution of the number of matchings of size $\\ell=\\ell(n)$ in $G(n,p)$ for a wide range of $p=p(n)\\in (0,1)$ and for every $1\\le \\ell\\le \\lfloor n/2\\rfloor$. We prove that this distribution changes from normal to log-normal as $\\ell$ increases, and we determine the critical value of $\\ell$, as a function of $n$ and $p$, at which the transition of the limiting distribution occurs.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2013-09-28T01:48:32.000Z", "abstract": "We study the asymptotic distribution of the number of matchings of size $\\ell=\\ell(n)$ in $G(n,p)$ for a wide range of $p=p(n)\\in (0,1)$ and for every $1\\le \\ell\\le \\floor{n/2}$. We prove that this distribution changes from normal to log-normal as $\\ell$ increases, and we determine the critical value of $\\ell$, as a function of $n$ and $p$, at which the transition of the limiting distribution occurs.", "comment": null, "journal": null, "doi": null }, { "version": "v3", "updated": "2015-08-04T02:14:50.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "large matchings", "random graphs", "transition", "asymptotic distribution", "wide range" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2013arXiv1305.5009G" } } }