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Probabilistic proofs of existence of rare events

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  • Directed Graph
  • Positive Probability
  • Directed Cycle
  • Open Unit Ball
  • Ramsey Number

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Alon, N. (1989). Probabilistic proofs of existence of rare events. In: Lindenstrauss, J., Milman, V.D. (eds) Geometric Aspects of Functional Analysis. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1376. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0090055

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