Math 2.0

Combinatorics Object

Rado graph

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Description

The Rado graph RR has vertex set ℕ={0,1,2,… }\N = \set{0, 1, 2, \dots}. For i<ji < j, the vertices ii and jj are adjacent when the binary digit of jj at position ii is 11. Equivalently, ⌊j/2i⌋\floor{j / 2^i} is odd.

It has the extension property, stated as follows. For any two disjoint finite sets U,V⊆ℕU, V \subseteq \N, some vertex z∉U∪Vz \notin U \cup V is adjacent to every vertex of UU and to no vertex of VV. Check: let NN be larger than every element of U∪VU \cup V and put z=2N+∑u∈U2uz = 2^N + \sum_{u \in U} 2^u. Then z>Nz > N, so z∉U∪Vz \notin U \cup V, and every w∈U∪Vw \in U \cup V satisfies w<zw < z. The binary digit of zz at position ww is 11 if w∈Uw \in U and 00 if w∈Vw \in V. So zz is adjacent to every vertex of UU and to no vertex of VV.

Remarks

Any two countable graphs with the extension property are isomorphic, by a back-and-forth argument. So the Rado graph is the Fraïssé limit of the class of finite graphs. Every finite graph is an induced subgraph of it, and every isomorphism between finite induced subgraphs extends to an automorphism. A countable random graph in which each edge is present independently with probability 1/21/2 is isomorphic to RR with probability 11. For this reason RR is also called the countable random graph. The first-order theory of RR is ℵ0\aleph_0-categorical.

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Further reading

  1. Web https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rado_graph
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MSC05C63, 03C15
Instance ofFraïssé limit
UsesGraph, Graph isomorphism, Random graph, Natural numbers
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Changed2 November 2026

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