The Height of a Random Partial Order: Concentration of Measure
Bollobas, Bela ; Brightwell, Graham
Ann. Appl. Probab., Tome 2 (1992) no. 4, p. 1009-1018 / Harvested from Project Euclid
The problem of determining the length $L_n$ of the longest increasing subsequence in a random permutation of $\{1, \ldots, n\}$ is equivalent to that of finding the height of a random two-dimensional partial order (obtained by intersecting two random linear orders). The expectation of $L_n$ is known to be about $2\sqrt{n}$. Frieze investigated the concentration of $L_n$ about this mean, showing that, for $\varepsilon > 0$, there is some constant $\beta > 0$ such that $Pr(|L_n - \mathbf{E}L_n| \geq n^{1/3+\varepsilon}) \leq \exp(-n^\beta).$ In this paper we obtain similar concentration results for the heights of random $k$-dimensional orders, for all $k \geq 2$. In the case $k = 2$, our method replaces the $n^{1/3+\varepsilon}$ above with $n^{1/4+\varepsilon}$, which we believe to be essentially best possible.
Publié le : 1992-11-14
Classification:  Partial order,  height,  random orders,  Ulam's problem,  increasing subsequences,  06A10,  60C05,  05A99
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Bollobas, Bela; Brightwell, Graham. The Height of a Random Partial Order: Concentration of Measure. Ann. Appl. Probab., Tome 2 (1992) no. 4, pp.  1009-1018. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1177005586/