Probabilistic combinatorics at exponentially small scales

Abstract

In many applications of the probabilistic method, one looks to study phenomena that occur ``with high probability''. More recently however, in an attempt to understand some of the most fundamental problems in combinatorics, researchers have been diving deeper into these probability spaces and understanding phenomena that occur at much smaller probability scales. Here I will survey a few of these ideas from the perspective of my own work in the area.

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