Polcovar: Software for Computing the Mean and Variance of Subgraph Counts in Random Graphs

Abstract

The mean and variance of the number of appearances of a given subgraph $H$ in an Erd\H{o}s--R\'enyi random graph over $n$ nodes are rational polynomials in $n$. We present a piece of software named Polcovar (from "polynomial" and "covariance") that computes the exact rational coefficients of these polynomials in function of $H$.