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Connectivity of a fixed-density binomial random graph (Pr(G(n,p) connected)→1,0<p<1 fixed)

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A disconnected binomial random graph has a connected component of a graph with at most half its vertices. The union bound over its possible vertex sets gives
Pr(G(n,p) disconnected)≤∑s=1⌊n/2⌋​(sn​)(1−p)s(n−s)≤∑s=1⌊n/2⌋​(n(1−p)n/2)s.
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The final geometric series bound tends to zero for fixed p>0.

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