{ "id": "1608.05095", "version": "v1", "published": "2016-08-17T20:31:29.000Z", "updated": "2016-08-17T20:31:29.000Z", "title": "Birth of a giant $(k_1,k_2)$-core in the random digraph", "authors": [ "Boris Pittel", "Dan Poole" ], "categories": [ "math.PR", "math.CO" ], "abstract": "The $(k_1,k_2)$-core of a digraph is the largest sub-digraph with minimum in-degree and minimum out-degree at least $k_1$ and $k_2$ respectively. For $\\max\\{k_1, k_2\\} \\geq 2$, we establish existence of the threshold edge-density $c^*=c^*(k_1,k_2)$, such that the random digraph $D(n,m)$, on the vertex set $[n]$ with $m$ edges, asymptotically almost surely has a giant $(k_1,k_2)$-core if $m/n> c^*$, and has no $(k_1,k_2)$-core if $m/n