We study a random graph model introduced in [Srinivasan Parthasarathy et al., 2017] where one adds Erdős - Rényi (ER) type perturbation to a random geometric graph. More precisely, assume G_X^* is a random geometric graph sampled from a nice measure on a metric space X = (X,d). An ER-perturbed random geometric graph G^(p,q) is generated by removing each existing edge from G_X^* with probability p, while inserting each non-existent edge to G_X^* with probability q. We consider a localized version of clique number for G^(p,q): Specifically, we study the edge clique number for each edge in a graph, defined as the size of the largest clique(s) in the graph containing that edge. We show that the edge clique number presents two fundamentally different types of behaviors in G^(p,q), depending on which "type" of randomness it is generated from. As an application of the above results, we show that by a simple filtering process based on the edge clique number, we can recover the shortest-path metric of the random geometric graph G_X^* within a multiplicative factor of 3 from an ER-perturbed observed graph G^(p,q), for a significantly wider range of insertion probability q than what is required in [Srinivasan Parthasarathy et al., 2017].
@InProceedings{kahle_et_al:LIPIcs.ISAAC.2019.29, author = {Kahle, Matthew and Tian, Minghao and Wang, Yusu}, title = {{Local Cliques in ER-Perturbed Random Geometric Graphs}}, booktitle = {30th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2019)}, pages = {29:1--29:22}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-130-6}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2019}, volume = {149}, editor = {Lu, Pinyan and Zhang, Guochuan}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2019.29}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-115253}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2019.29}, annote = {Keywords: random graphs, random geometric graphs, edge clique number, the probabilistic method, metric recovery} }
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