Concentration of maximum degree in random planar graphs

Abstract

Let $P(n,m)$ be a graph chosen uniformly at random from the class of all planar graphs on vertex set $[n]:=\left\{1,\dots ,n\right\}$ with $m=m(n)$ edges. We show that in the sparse regime, when $m/n\le 1$, with high probability the maximum degree of $P(n,m)$ takes at most two different values. In contrast, this is not true anymore in the dense regime, when $m/n>1$, where the maximum degree of $P(n,m)$ is not concentrated on any subset of $[n]$ with bounded size.

arXiv commentarXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2010.15083