# [SOLVED]Choosing Edges, Random Graph

#### joypav

##### Active member
Let $n$ be a positive integer, and let $G$ be a random graph from $G(n, 1/2)$. Let $e_1, . . . , e_{n \choose 2}$ be the
possible edges on the vertex set ${1, . . . , n}$, and for each $i$, let $A_i$ be the event that $e_i ∈ E(G)$.
Prove that the events $A_1, . . . , A_{n \choose 2}$ are independent.

Can I just have some help understanding what details I should be including here?
It's so trivial that I don't know how to write it down as a proof.
There is a probability of $\frac{1}{2}$ that any arbitrary possible edge will be an edge of the graph. And it just seems obvious that whether one edge is in the graph has nothing at all to do with if another edge is in the graph.

So then if we choose an arbitrary subset of $A_1, . . . , A_{n \choose 2}$, the probability of the events in the subset occurring will be the product of the individual probabilities of the events.

#### caffeinemachine

##### Well-known member
MHB Math Scholar
Let $n$ be a positive integer, and let $G$ be a random graph from $G(n, 1/2)$. Let $e_1, . . . , e_{n \choose 2}$ be the
possible edges on the vertex set ${1, . . . , n}$, and for each $i$, let $A_i$ be the event that $e_i ∈ E(G)$.
Prove that the events $A_1, . . . , A_{n \choose 2}$ are independent.

Can I just have some help understanding what details I should be including here?
It's so trivial that I don't know how to write it down as a proof.
There is a probability of $\frac{1}{2}$ that any arbitrary possible edge will be an edge of the graph. And it just seems obvious that whether one edge is in the graph has nothing at all to do with if another edge is in the graph.

So then if we choose an arbitrary subset of $A_1, . . . , A_{n \choose 2}$, the probability of the events in the subset occurring will be the product of the individual probabilities of the events.
In $G(n, p)$, the edges appear independently with probability $p$ (by definition of $G(n, p)$). So the question indeed is asking to prove something that is immediate from the definition.