Majority bootstrap percolation on the hypercube

dc.creatorBalogh, József
dc.creatorBollobás, Béla
dc.creatorMorris, Robert
dc.date2007-02-13
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:46:41Z
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dc.descriptionIn majority bootstrap percolation on a graph G, an infection spreads according to the following deterministic rule: if at least half of the neighbours of a vertex v are already infected, then v is also infected, and infected vertices remain infected forever. Percolation occurs if eventually every vertex is infected. The elements of the set of initially infected vertices, A \subset V(G), are normally chosen independently at random, each with probability p, say. This process has been extensively studied on the sequence of torus graphs [n]^d, for n = 1,2,..., where d = d(n) is either fixed or a very slowly growing function of n. For example, Cerf and Manzo showed that the critical probability is o(1) if d(n) < log*(n), i.e., if p = p(n) is bounded away from zero then the probability of percolation on [n]^d tends to one as n goes to infinity. In this paper we study the case when the growth of d to infinity is not excessively slow; in particular, we show that the critical probability is 1/2 + o(1) if d > (loglog(n))^2 logloglog(n), and give much stronger bounds in the case that G is the hypercube, [2]^d.
dc.description44 pgs, no figures, submitted Feb 2007
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702373
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702373
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/123909
dc.subjectCombinatorics
dc.subjectProbability
dc.titleMajority bootstrap percolation on the hypercube
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