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Optimal and Random Partitions of Random Graphs

1 Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA, 2 Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0106, USA
The behavior of random graphs with respect to graph partitioning is considered. It is shown that, for a random graph with n vertices and with expected degree exceeding a constant times ln n, the graph cannot be partitioned well, i.e. a random partition is likely to be almost as good as an optimal partition.
Received April 1994. revised July 1994.
* Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0106, USA