The distribution of the maximum number of common neighbors in the random graph

Abstract

Let $\Delta_{k;n}$ be the maximum number of common neighbors of a set of $k$ vertices in $G(n,p)$. In this paper, we find $a_n$ and $\sigma_n$ such that $\frac{\Delta_{k;n}-a_n}{\sigma_n}$ converges in distribution to a random variable having the standard Gumbel distribution.