Properties that are assumed to hold for almost all graphs in a given class

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For some classes of random graphs (e.g. defined by a given set of independent properties) one can prove that some (dependent) properties hold for almost all of them.

Examples:

  • Almost all graphs are asymmetric.

  • Almost all graphs have diameter 2.

  • Almost all Erdős–Rényi graphs have a Poisson degree distribution.

I can imagine the case that

  • one has defined some class $\Gamma$ of random graphs,

  • one has generated a large number of such graphs by a random process, and

  • one experimentally found out that almost all of them have some graph property $P$. But

  • one has not been successful in proving that $P$ holds for almost all graphs in $\Gamma$.

Maybe this is only a fictious scenario and never occurred. Then it would be interesting to know why. Does a proof of holding almost certainly always lie open? In case it did occur, I ask for specific references: Which are examples of graph properties (in some given class $\Gamma$ of graphs) that are only assumed to hold for almost all graphs in $\Gamma$