A random walk among random graphs

Nicolas Curien

Published 2024-12-27Version 1

Lecture notes of a master course given at Orsay between 2019-2024. Topics covered include Part I: One-dimensional random walks, cycle lemma and Bienaym\'e--Galton--Watson random trees. Part II: Erd\"os--R\'enyi random graphs, three proofs of the emergence of the giant component. Part III: Random recursive tree, random permutations and continuous time embedding techniques. Intended for publication.