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Abstract: Computer Science these questions take on an algorithmic tone, having proven the existence of a graph or other structure can it be constructed in polynomial time. A recent success of J. Beck allows the Lov'asz Local Lemma to be derandomized. Sometimes. We close with two forays into a land dubbed Asymptopia by David Aldous. There the asymptotic behavior of random objects are given by an infinite object, allowing powerful noncombinatorial tools to be used. 1 Chernoff, Azuma, Janson, Talagrand... (Update)

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...large deviation methods like martingales and the Janson and Talagrand inequalities. The reader may consult the survey paper of Spencer [15] for further details. More recent applications can be found in [10] and [11] The main objective of the current paper is to provide a...

...referee. First we will describe an adaptation of Talagrand s inequality, convenient for combinatorial applications, as presented by Spencer in [14]. Let Q n i=1 i be a product probability space and let h R be a real valued random variable. We call h Lipschitz if jh(x) h(y)j...

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P. Erdos and J. Spencer, Probabilistic Methods in Combinatorics, Academic Press, 1974. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/spencer74probabilistic.html   More

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  author = "P. Erdos and J. Spencer",
  title = "Probabilistic Methods in Combinatorics",
  text = "P. Erdos and J. Spencer, Probabilistic Methods in Combinatorics, Academic
    Press, 1974.",
  year = "1974",
  url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/spencer74probabilistic.html" }
Citations (may not include all citations):
957   The probabilistic method (context) - Alon, Spencer - 1993  ACM   DBLP
283   Random Graphs (context) - Bollob'as - 1985  ACM
132   the evolution of random graphs (context) - Erdos, R'enyi - 1960
56   An algorithmic approach to the Lov'asz Local Lemma (context) - Beck - 1991
54   Problems and results on 3-chromatic hypergraphs and some rel.. (context) - Erdos, Lov'asz - 1975
44   A parallel algorithmic version of the local lemma (context) - Alon - 1991  ACM   DBLP
34   Poisson approximation for large deviations (context) - Janson - 1990  DBLP
34   a packing and covering problem (context) - Rodl - 1985
21   An exponential bound for the probability of nonexistence of .. (context) - Janson, Luczak et al. - 1990
15   Some remarks on the theory of graphs (context) - Erdos - 1947
14   Roth's estimate on the discrepancy of integer sequences is n.. (context) - Beck - 1981
14   a limit theorem in combinatorial analysis (context) - Erdos, Hanani - 1963
13   Discrepancy in Arithmetic Progressions - Matousek, Spencer
12   Remark concerning integer sequences (context) - Roth - 1964
11   Six standard deviations suffice (context) - Spencer - 1985
9   The chromatic number of random graphs (context) - Bollob'as - 1988  DBLP
8   Integer-making Theorems (context) - Beck, Fiala - 1981
4   A new isoperimetric inequality for product measure and the t.. (context) - Talagrand - 1991
3   Tight upper bounds for the discrepancy of halfspaces (context) - Matousek - 1994
2   a combinatorial problem of Erdos (context) - Kleitman - 1966



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