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Clearly <jats:italic>Q<\/jats:italic><jats:sup><jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sup> has diameter and radious <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>. Write <jats:italic>M<\/jats:italic> = <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>2<jats:sup>n\u20101<\/jats:sup> = <jats:italic>e<\/jats:italic>(<jats:italic>Q<\/jats:italic><jats:sup><jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sup>) for the size of <jats:italic>Q<\/jats:italic><jats:sup><jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sup>. Let <jats:italic>Q<\/jats:italic> = (<jats:italic>Q<\/jats:italic><jats:sub><jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sub>)<jats:sub>o<\/jats:sub><jats:sup>M<\/jats:sup> be a random <jats:italic>Q<\/jats:italic><jats:sup><jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sup>\u2010process. Thus <jats:italic>Q<\/jats:italic><jats:sup><jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sup> is a spanning subgraph of <jats:italic>Q<\/jats:italic><jats:sup><jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sup> of size <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>Q<\/jats:italic><jats:sub><jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sub> is obtained from <jats:italic>Q<\/jats:italic><jats:sub><jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic>\u20131<\/jats:sub> by the random addition of an edge of <jats:italic>Q<\/jats:italic><jats:sup><jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sup> not in <jats:italic>Q<\/jats:italic><jats:sub><jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic>\u20131<\/jats:sub>, Let <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic><jats:sup>(<jats:italic>k<\/jats:italic>)<\/jats:sup> = \u03c4(<jats:italic>Q<\/jats:italic>;\u03b4\u2a7e<jats:italic>k<\/jats:italic>) be the hitting time of the property of having minimal degree at least <jats:italic>k<\/jats:italic>. We show that the diameter <jats:italic>d<\/jats:italic><jats:sub><jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sub> = diam (<jats:italic>Q<\/jats:italic><jats:sub><jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sub>) of <jats:italic>Q<\/jats:italic><jats:sub><jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sub> in almost every Q\u0303 behaves as follows: <jats:italic>d<\/jats:italic><jats:sub><jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sub> starts infinite and is first finite at time <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic><jats:sup>(1)<\/jats:sup>, it equals <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> + 1 for <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic><jats:sup>(1)<\/jats:sup> \u2a7d <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic><jats:sup>(2)<\/jats:sup> and <jats:italic>d<\/jats:italic><jats:sub><jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sub>, = <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> for <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic> \u2a7e <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic><jats:sup>(2)<\/jats:sup>. We also show that the radius of <jats:italic>Q<\/jats:italic><jats:sub><jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sub>, is first finite for <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic> = <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic><jats:sup>(1)<\/jats:sup>, when it assumes the value <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>. These results are deduced from detailed theorems concerning the diameter and radius of the almost surely unique largest component of <jats:italic>Q<\/jats:italic><jats:sub><jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic><\/jats:sub>, for <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic> = \u03a9(<jats:italic>M<\/jats:italic>). \u00a9 1994 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Inc.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1002\/rsa.3240050503","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2007,6,1]],"date-time":"2007-06-01T21:24:52Z","timestamp":1180733092000},"page":"627-648","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["On the diameter and radius of randon subgraphs of the cube"],"prefix":"10.1002","volume":"5","author":[{"given":"B.","family":"Bollob\u00e1s","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Y.","family":"Kohayakawa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"T.","family":"\u0141uczak","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2006,10,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_1_2_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1007\/BF02579276","article-title":"Largest random component of a k\u2010cube","volume":"2","author":"Ajtai M.","year":"1982","journal-title":"Combinastorica"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_3_2","first-page":"xvi + 447","volume-title":"Random Graphs","author":"Bollob\u00e1s B.","year":"1985"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_4_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/rsa.3240010107"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_5_2","unstructured":"B.Bollob\u00e1s andY.Kohayakawa On Richardson's model on the Hypercube manuscript."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_6_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/rsa.3240030106"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_7_2","unstructured":"B.Bollob\u00e1s Y.Kohayakawa andT.\u0141uczak On the evolution of random Boolean functions inExtremal Problems for Finite Sets P. 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