Páidí Creed ; Mary Cryan
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The number of Euler tours of a random $d$-in/$d$-out graph
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Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science,
January 1, 2010,
DMTCS Proceedings vol. AM, 21st International Meeting on Probabilistic, Combinatorial, and Asymptotic Methods in the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA'10)
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https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.2787
The number of Euler tours of a random $d$-in/$d$-out graphArticle
Authors: Páidí Creed 1; Mary Cryan 2
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Páidí Creed;Mary Cryan
1 Department of Computer Science
2 School of Informatics [Edimbourg]
In this paper we obtain the expectation and variance of the number of Euler tours of a random $d$-in/$d$-out directed graph, for $d \geq 2$. We use this to obtain the asymptotic distribution and prove a concentration result. We are then able to show that a very simple approach for uniform sampling or approximately counting Euler tours yields algorithms running in expected polynomial time for almost every $d$-in/$d$-out graph. We make use of the BEST theorem of de Bruijn, van Aardenne-Ehrenfest, Smith and Tutte, which shows that the number of Euler tours of a $d$-in/$d$-out graph is the product of the number of arborescences and the term $[(d-1)!]^n/n$. Therefore most of our effort is towards estimating the asymptotic distribution of the number of arborescences of a random $d$-in/$d$-out graph.
Volume: DMTCS Proceedings vol. AM, 21st International Meeting on Probabilistic, Combinatorial, and Asymptotic Methods in the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA'10)