On November 26, 2024, Eng Keat Hng from the IBS Extremal Combinatorics and Probability Group gave a talk on characterizing fractionally isomorphic graphons in terms of the Galton-Watson branching process. The title of his talk was “Graphon branching processes and fractional isomorphism“.
Eng Keat Hng, Graphon branching processes and fractional isomorphism
In 2005, Bollobás, Janson and Riordan introduced and extensively studied a general model of inhomogeneous random graphs parametrised by graphons. In particular, they studied the emergence of a giant component in these inhomogeneous random graphs by relating them to a broad collection of inhomogeneous Galton-Watson branching processes.
Fractional isomorphism of finite graphs is an important and well-studied concept at the intersection of graph theory and combinatorial optimisation. It has many different characterizations that involve a range of very different and seemingly unrelated properties of graphs. Recently, Grebík and Rocha developed a theory of fractional isomorphism for graphons.
In our work, we characterise inhomogeneous random graphs that yield the same inhomogeneous Galton-Watson branching process (and hence have a similar component structure).
This is joint work with Jan Hladký and Anna Margarethe Limbach.