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On the size of temporal cliques in subcritical random temporal graphs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 June 2025

Caelan Atamanchuk
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Luc Devroye
Affiliation:
School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Gábor Lugosi*
Affiliation:
Department of Economics and Business, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, Barcelona, 08010, Spain Barcelona School of Economics, Barcelona, Spain
*
Corresponding Author: Gábor Lugosi; Email: gabor.lugosi@gmail.com

Abstract

A random temporal graph is an Erdős-Rényi random graph $G(n,p)$, together with a random ordering of its edges. A path in the graph is called increasing if the edges on the path appear in increasing order. A set $S$ of vertices forms a temporal clique if for all $u,v \in S$, there is an increasing path from $u$ to $v$. Becker, Casteigts, Crescenzi, Kodric, Renken, Raskin and Zamaraev [(2023) Giant components in random temporal graphs. arXiv,2205.14888] proved that if $p=c\log n/n$ for $c\gt 1$, then, with high probability, there is a temporal clique of size $n-o(n)$. On the other hand, for $c\lt 1$, with high probability, the largest temporal clique is of size $o(n)$. In this note, we improve the latter bound by showing that, for $c\lt 1$, the largest temporal clique is of constant size with high probability.

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press

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