Modifying a Graph's Degree Sequence and the Testablity of Degree Sequence Properties
We show that if the degree sequence of a graph G is close in ℓ_1-distance to a given realizable degree sequence (d_1,…,d_n), then G is close in edit distance to a graph with degree sequence (d_1,…,d_n). We then use this result to prove that every graph property defined in terms of the degree sequence is testable in the dense graph model with query complexity independent of n.
READ FULL TEXT