Publications [#350413] of Nicholas A Cook

Papers Published

1. Cook, NA, Discrepancy properties for random regular digraphs, Random Structures and Algorithms, vol. 50 no. 1 (January, 2017), pp. 23-58 [doi]
   (last updated on 2026/01/15)

   Abstract:
   For the uniform random regular directed graph we prove concentration inequalities for (1) codegrees and (2) the number of edges passing from one set of vertices to another. As a consequence, we can deduce discrepancy properties for the distribution of edges essentially matching results for Erdős–Rényi digraphs obtained from Chernoff-type bounds. The proofs make use of the method of exchangeable pairs, developed for concentration of measure by Chatterjee in (Chatterjee, Probab Theory and Relat Fields 138 (2007), 305–321). Exchangeable pairs are constructed using two involutions on the set of regular digraphs: a well-known “simple switching” operation, as well as a novel “reflection” operation. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 50, 23–58, 2017.