Rado graph
Description
The Rado graph has vertex set . For , the vertices and are adjacent when the binary digit of at position is . Equivalently, is odd.
It has the extension property, stated as follows. For any two disjoint finite sets , some vertex is adjacent to every vertex of and to no vertex of . Check: let be larger than every element of and put . Then , so , and every satisfies . The binary digit of at position is if and if . So is adjacent to every vertex of and to no vertex of .
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 is isomorphic to with probability . For this reason is also called the countable random graph. The first-order theory of is -categorical.
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| Tag | RMXR0FEF54 |
|---|---|
| URI | m2://RMXR0FEF54 |
| Kind | object |
| Writing | W0 stub |
| MSC | 05C63, 03C15 |
| Instance of | Fraïssé limit |
| Uses | Graph, Graph isomorphism, Random graph, Natural numbers |
| Same as | |
| Changed | 2 November 2026 |
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