Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 ii Paper 1 17G b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Let count triangles, where ranges over the three-element vertex sets and is the corresponding indicator random variable. ThenTwo distinct triangle indicators are independent unless their triangles share an edge. There areunordered pairs sharing an edge, and each covariance isThereforeIt follows thatwhen . Chebyshev's inequality now givesHenceas summarized by the triangle count in a binomial random graph.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 1 17H b i Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Write as a sum of indicator random variable. Indicators for two distinct copies are independent when the copies share at most one vertex, since their edge sets are then disjoint. Pairs sharing two vertices have eleven edges in their union, while pairs sharing three have nine. It follows thatThus . By the second moment method, in probability, so . This is the sparse clique-count concentration estimate.