Abstract
In the random geometric graph , n vertices are placed randomly in Euclidean d-space and edges are added between any pair of vertices distant at most from each other. We establish strong laws of large numbers (LLNs) for a large class of graph parameters, evaluated for in the thermodynamic limit with const., and also in the dense limit with , . Examples include domination number, independence number, clique-covering number, eternal domination number and triangle packing number. The general theory is based on certain subadditivity and superadditivity properties, and also yields LLNs for other functionals such as the minimum weight for the traveling salesman, spanning tree, matching, bipartite matching and bipartite traveling salesman problems, for a general class of weight functions with at most polynomial growth of order , under thermodynamic scaling of the distance parameter.
Funding Statement
D. Mitsche has been partially supported by grant GrHyDy ANR-20-CE40-0002, by IDEXLYON of Université de Lyon (Programme Investissements d’Avenir ANR16-IDEX-0005) and by Labex MILYON/ANR-10-LABX-0070.
Acknowledgements
We thank Joe Yukich for suggesting that we address the issue of rates of convergence. We also thank the referee for some helpful comments.
Citation
Dieter Mitsche. Mathew D. Penrose. "Limit theory of combinatorial optimization for random geometric graphs." Ann. Appl. Probab. 31 (6) 2721 - 2771, December 2021. https://doi.org/10.1214/20-AAP1661
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