A Solidification Phenomenon in Random Packings

DOI10.1137/050647785MaRDI QIDQ5296025zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Russell Lyons, Charles Radin, Peter Winkler, Lewis Bowen

Publication date 31 July 2007

Published in SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0512686

zbMATH Keywords

high/low density

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Packing and covering in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C15) Rigidity and flexibility of structures (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C25)

Abstract: We prove that uniformly random packings of copies of a certain simply-connected figure in the plane exhibit global connectedness at all sufficiently high densities, but not at low densities.

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