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How likely is an LLD degree sequence to be graphical? (English) Zbl 1079.05023
Let $$D(1),\dots, D(n)$$ be a sequnce of independent identically distributed positive integer-valued random variables, and let $$P(n)$$ be the probability that the sequence is graphical, i.e. that there is a simple graph on $$n$$ vertices with degrees given by the $$n$$ values in the sequence. By investigating the limit of $$nP(D(i)>n-1)$$ as $$n$$ tends to infinity, sufficient conditions are obtained that $$P(n)$$ has a limit $$0$$ or $$1/2$$ or strictly in between. The proof is based on a representation of order statistics by unit exponential random variables.

##### MSC:
 05C07 Vertex degrees 05C80 Random graphs (graph-theoretic aspects) 60G70 Extreme value theory; extremal stochastic processes
##### Keywords:
degree distributions; graphical sequences; order statistics
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