Convergence of Maximum Bisection Ratio of Sparse Random Graphs

Abstract

We consider sequences of large sparse random graphs whose degree distribution approaches a limit with finite mean. This model includes both the random regular graphs and the Erdös-Renyi graphs of constant average degree. We prove that the maximum bisection ratio of such a graph sequence converges almost surely to a deterministic limit. We extend this result to so-called 2-spin spin glasses in the paramagnetic to ferromagnetic regime. Our work generalizes the graph interpolation method to some non-additive graph parameters.

11 pages, 1 figure; added acknowledgement of a previous unpublished result