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Bohman, T (Ed.)Abstract We prove moderate deviations bounds for the lower tail of the number of odd cycles in a random graph. We show that the probability of decreasing triangle density by , is whenever . These complement results of Goldschmidt, Griffiths, and Scott, who showed that for , the probability is . That is, deviations of order smaller than behave like small deviations, and deviations of order larger than behave like large deviations. We conjecture that a sharp change between the two regimes occurs for deviations of size , which we associate with a single large negative eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix becoming responsible for almost all of the cycle deficit. We give analogous results for the ‐cycle density, for all odd . Our results can be interpreted as finite size effects in phase transitions in constrained random graphs.more » « less
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Consider algorithms with unbounded computation time that probe the entries of the adjacency matrix of annvertex graph, and need to output a clique. We show that if the input graph is drawn at random from(and hence is likely to have a clique of size roughly), then for everyδ<2 and constantℓ, there is anα<2 (that may depend onδandℓ) such that no algorithm that makesnδprobes inℓrounds is likely (over the choice of the random graph) to output a clique of size larger than.more » « less
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