On a conditionally Poissonian graph process

Random (pseudo)graphs G _N with the following structure are studied: first, independent and identically distributed capacities Λ i are drawn for vertices i = 1, …, N; then, each pair of vertices (i, j) is connected, independently of the other pairs, with E(i, j) edges, where E(i, j) has distribution Poisson(Λ i Λ j / ∑ k=1 ^N Λ k ). The main result of the paper is that when P(Λ1 > x) ≥ x ^−τ+1, where τ ∈ (2, 3), then, asymptotically almost surely, G N has a giant component, and the distance between two randomly selected vertices of the giant component is less than (2 + o(N))(log log N)/(-log (τ − 2)). It is also shown that the cases τ > 3, τ ∈ (2, 3), and τ ∈ (1, 2) present three qualitatively different connectivity architectures.