Cluster-size decay in supercritical kernel-based spatial random graphs

Journal Article (2025)
Author(s)

Joost Jorritsma (University of Oxford)

Júlia Komjáthy (TU Delft - Applied Probability)

Dieter Mitsche (Université de Lyon, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, University Jean Monnet)

Research Group
Applied Probability
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1214/24-AOP1742
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Publication Year
2025
Language
English
Research Group
Applied Probability
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Issue number
4
Volume number
53
Pages (from-to)
1537-1597
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Abstract

We consider a large class of spatially-embedded random graphs that includes among others long-range percolation, continuum scale-free percolation and the age-dependent random connection model. We assume that the model is supercritical: there is an infinite component. We identify the stretch-exponent ζ ∈ (0, 1) of the decay of the cluster-size distribution. That is, with (Formula presented) denoting the number of vertices in the component of the vertex at (Formula presented), we prove (Formula presented) The value of ζ undergoes several phase transitions with respect to three main model parameters: the Euclidean dimension d, the power-law tail exponent τ of the degree distribution and a long-range parameter α governing the presence of long edges in Euclidean space. In this paper we present the proof for the region in the phase diagram where the model is a generalization of continuum scale-free percolation and/or hyperbolic random graphs: ζ in this regime depends both on τ, α. We also prove that the second-largest component in a box of volume n is of size (Formula presented) with high probability. We develop a deterministic algorithm, the cover expansion, as new methodology. This algorithm enables us to prevent too large components that may be de-localized or locally dense in space.

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