From quasirandom graphs to graph limits and graphlets

We generalize the notion of quasirandom which concerns a class of equivalent properties that random graphs satisfy. We show that the convergence of a graph sequence under the spectral distance is equivalent to the convergence using the (normalized) cut distance. The resulting graph limit is called graphlets. We then consider several families of graphlets and, in particular, we characterize quasirandom graphlets with low ranks for both dense and sparse graphs. For example, we show that a graph sequence Gn, n ∈ Z, converges to a graphlets of rank 2, (i.e.,all normalized eigenvalues Gn converge to 0 except for two eigenvalues converging to 1 and ρ > 0) if and only if the graphlets is the union of 2 quasirandom graphlets.