Conjecture on the limiting distribution of the maximum degree as p tends to zero

Let XX denote the limiting random variable associated with the normalized maximum degree in Theorem 1.2, and let D1D_1 and D2D_2 be the constants appearing there. Maximum-degree limiting-distribution conjecture. When p0p\rightarrow 0, XX converges in distribution to a constant random variable. Equivalently, one may take D1=D2D_1=D_2 in the statement of Theorem 1.2. The conjecture is motivated by the observation that, for each vertex ViV_i, the distribution of its degree at time nn resembles the degree distribution of the pi\lfloor pi\rfloorth vertex in a preferential attachment model with pnpn vertices.

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Chenxu Feng and Yifan Li, “Structural Properties of the Geometric Preferential Attachment Model”, arXiv:2511.18052 (2025).

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