On the expansion of the giant component in percolated (n,d,λ) graphs

Abstract

Let d \geq d_0 be a sufficiently large constant. A (n,d,c \sqrt{d}) graph G is a d-regular graph over n vertices whose second largest (in absolute value) eigenvalue is at most c \sqrt{d}. For any 0 < p < 1, G_p is the graph induced by retaining each edge of G with probability p. It is known that for p > \frac{1}{d} the graph G_p almost surely contains a unique giant component (a connected component with linear number vertices). We show that for p \geq frac{5c}{\sqrt{d}} the giant component of G_p almost surely has an edge expansion of at least \frac{1}{\log_2 n}.