{ "id": "1605.05692", "version": "v1", "published": "2016-05-18T18:43:32.000Z", "updated": "2016-05-18T18:43:32.000Z", "title": "Expected values of parameters associated with the minimum rank of a graph", "authors": [ "Tracy Hall", "Leslie Hogben", "Ryan Martin", "Bryan Shader" ], "comment": "17 pages, 2 figures", "journal": "Linear Algebra Appl. 433(1) (2010), 101--117", "doi": "10.1016/j.laa.2010.01.036", "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "We investigate the expected value of various graph parameters associated with the minimum rank of a graph, including minimum rank/maximum nullity and related Colin de Verdi\\`ere-type parameters. Let $G(v,p)$ denote the usual Erd\\H{o}s-R\\'enyi random graph on $v$ vertices with edge probability $p$. We obtain bounds for the expected value of the random variables $\\mr(G(v,p))$, $\\M(G(v,p))$, $\\nu(G(v,p))$ and $\\xi(G(v,p))$, which yield bounds on the average values of these parameters over all labeled graphs of order $v$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2016-05-18T18:43:32.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "05C50", "05C80", "15A03" ], "keywords": [ "expected value", "minimum rank/maximum nullity", "average values", "graph parameters", "random graph" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "Elsevier" }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 17, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }