## Annals of Applied Probability

### Effect of scale on long-range random graphs and chromosomal inversions

#### Abstract

We consider bond percolation on $n$ vertices on a circle where edges are permitted between vertices whose spacing is at most some number $L=L(n)$. We show that the resulting random graph gets a giant component when $L\gg(\log n)^{2}$ (when the mean degree exceeds 1) but not when $L\ll\log n$. The proof uses comparisons to branching random walks. We also consider a related process of random transpositions of $n$ particles on a circle, where transpositions only occur again if the spacing is at most $L$. Then the process exhibits the mean-field behavior described by Berestycki and Durrett if and only if $L(n)$ tends to infinity, no matter how slowly. Thus there are regimes where the random graph has no giant component but the random walk nevertheless has a phase transition. We discuss possible relevance of these results for a dataset coming from D. repleta and D. melanogaster and for the typical length of chromosomal inversions.

#### Article information

Source
Ann. Appl. Probab., Volume 22, Number 4 (2012), 1328-1361.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 10 August 2012

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoap/1344614197

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/11-AAP793

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2985163

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1248.05187

#### Citation

Berestycki, Nathanaël; Pymar, Richard. Effect of scale on long-range random graphs and chromosomal inversions. Ann. Appl. Probab. 22 (2012), no. 4, 1328--1361. doi:10.1214/11-AAP793. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoap/1344614197

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