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Poisson Paradigm: Qualitative / Quantitative

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MATH-467: Probabilistic methods in combinatorics

The 'probabilistic method' is a fundamental tool in combinatorics. The basic idea is as follows: to prove that an object (for example, graph) with certain properties exists, it suffices to prove that if the object is chosen at random, then it has the desir ...

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This lecture covers the Poisson Paradigm, focusing on the First/Second Moment Method, Union Bound, Lovász Local Lemma, FKG Inequality, and Martingales. It discusses the concepts of dependency graphs, lattic structures, and the application of Chernoff bounds in probability theory.

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