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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Probabilistic Extensions of the Erdos-Ko-Rado Property

Celaya, Anna, Godbole, Anant P., Schleifer, Mandy Rae 01 September 2006 (has links)
The classical Erdos-Ko-Rado (EKR) Theorem states that if we choose a family of subsets, each of size k, from a fixed set of size (n > 2k), then the largest possible pairwise intersecting family has size t = (k-1n-1). We consider the probability that a randomly selected family of size t = tn has the EKR property (pairwise nonempty intersection) as n and k = kn tend to infinity, the latter at a specific rate. As t gets large, the EKR property is less likely to occur, while as t gets smaller, the EKR property is satisfied with high probability. We derive the threshold value for t using Janson's inequality. Using the Stein-Chen method we show that the distribution of X0, defined as the number of disjoint pairs of subsets in our family, can be approximated by a Poisson distribution. We extend our results to yield similar conclusions for Xi, the number of pairs of subsets that overlap in exactly i elements. Finally, we show that the joint distribution X0, X1, ⋯, Xb) can be approximated by a multidimensional Poisson vector with independent components.

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