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Clearly <jats:italic>Q<jats:sup>n<\/jats:sup><\/jats:italic> is an n\u2010connected graph of diameter and radius <jats:italic>n.<\/jats:italic> Write <jats:italic>M = n2n<jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup> = e(Q<jats:sup>n<\/jats:sup>)<\/jats:italic> for the size of <jats:italic>Q<jats:sup>n<\/jats:sup>.<\/jats:italic> Let <jats:italic>Q\u0303 = (Q<jats:sub>t<\/jats:sub>)<jats:sup>M<\/jats:sup><jats:sub>0<\/jats:sub><\/jats:italic> be a random <jats:italic>Q\u0303<\/jats:italic>\u2010process. Thus <jats:italic>Q<jats:sub>t<\/jats:sub><\/jats:italic> is a spanning subgraph of <jats:italic>Q<jats:sup>n<\/jats:sup><\/jats:italic> of size <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>Q<jats:sub>t<\/jats:sub><\/jats:italic> is obtained from Q<jats:sub>t\u20101<\/jats:sub> by the random addition of an edge of <jats:italic>Q<jats:sup>n<\/jats:sup><\/jats:italic> not in <jats:italic>Q<jats:sub>t\u20101<\/jats:sub><\/jats:italic>. Let <jats:italic>t<jats:sup>(k)<\/jats:sup> = \u03c4(Q\u0303 \u03b4<\/jats:italic> \u2267 <jats:italic>k)<\/jats:italic> be the hitting time of the property of having minimal degree at least <jats:italic>k.<\/jats:italic> It is shown in [5] that, almost surely, at time <jats:italic>t<jats:sup>(1)<\/jats:sup><\/jats:italic> the graph <jats:italic>Q<jats:sub>t<\/jats:sub><\/jats:italic> becomes connected and that in fact the diameter of <jats:italic>Q<jats:sub>t<\/jats:sub><\/jats:italic> at this point is <jats:italic>n +<\/jats:italic> 1. Here we generalize this result by showing that, for any fixed <jats:italic>k\u22672<\/jats:italic>, almost surely at time <jats:italic>t<jats:sup>(k)<\/jats:sup><\/jats:italic> the graph <jats:italic>Q<jats:sub>t<\/jats:sub><\/jats:italic> acquires the extremely strong property that any two of its vertices are connected by <jats:italic>k<\/jats:italic> internally vertex\u2010disjoint paths each of length at most <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>, except for possibly one, which may have length <jats:italic>n +<\/jats:italic> 1. In particular, the hitting time of <jats:italic>k<\/jats:italic>\u2010connectedness is almost surely <jats:italic>t<jats:sup>(k)<\/jats:sup>.<\/jats:italic> \u00a9 1995 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Inc.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1002\/rsa.3240060210","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,7,12]],"date-time":"2010-07-12T01:53:44Z","timestamp":1278899624000},"page":"221-230","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Connectivity properties of random subgraphs of the cube"],"prefix":"10.1002","volume":"6","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":"Luczak","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2007,7,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_1_1_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/BF02579276"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_2_2","first-page":"xvi","volume-title":"Random Graphs","author":"Bollob\u00b4s B.","year":"1985"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_3_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/rsa.3240010107"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_4_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/rsa.3240030106"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_5_2","article-title":"On the diameter and radius of random subgraphs of the cube","author":"Bollob\u00e1s B.","journal-title":"Random Struct. 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