Speaker: 

Mark Rudelson

Institution: 

University of Michigan

Time: 

Tuesday, May 7, 2019 - 11:00am

Host: 

Location: 

RH 510M

 

Consider an adjacency matrix of a bipartite, directed, or undirected Erdos-Renyi random graph. If the average degree of a vertex is large enough, then such matrix is invertible with high probability. As the average degree decreases, the probability of the matrix being singular increases, and for a sufficiently small average degree, it becomes singular with probability close to 1. We will discuss when this transition occurs, and what the main reason for the singularity of the adjacency matrix is. This is a joint work with Anirban Basak.