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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2020.20

Greedy Maximal Independent Sets via Local Limits

Authors: Michael Krivelevich, Tamás Mészáros, Peleg Michaeli, and Clara Shikhelman

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 159, 31st International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2020)

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The random greedy algorithm for finding a maximal independent set in a graph has been studied extensively in various settings in combinatorics, probability, computer science - and even in chemistry. The algorithm builds a maximal independent set by inspecting the vertices of the graph one at a time according to a random order, adding the current vertex to the independent set if it is not connected to any previously added vertex by an edge. In this paper we present a natural and general framework for calculating the asymptotics of the proportion of the yielded independent set for sequences of (possibly random) graphs, involving a useful notion of local convergence. We use this framework both to give short and simple proofs for results on previously studied families of graphs, such as paths and binomial random graphs, and to study new ones, such as random trees. We conclude our work by analysing the random greedy algorithm more closely when the base graph is a tree. We show that in expectation, the cardinality of a random greedy independent set in the path is no larger than that in any other tree of the same order.

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Michael Krivelevich, Tamás Mészáros, Peleg Michaeli, and Clara Shikhelman. Greedy Maximal Independent Sets via Local Limits. In 31st International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 159, pp. 20:1-20:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{krivelevich_et_al:LIPIcs.AofA.2020.20,
  author =	{Krivelevich, Michael and M\'{e}sz\'{a}ros, Tam\'{a}s and Michaeli, Peleg and Shikhelman, Clara},
  title =	{{Greedy Maximal Independent Sets via Local Limits}},
  booktitle =	{31st International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2020)},
  pages =	{20:1--20:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-147-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{159},
  editor =	{Drmota, Michael and Heuberger, Clemens},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2020.20},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-120507},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2020.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: Greedy maximal independent set, random graph, local limit}
}

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