Bootstrap percolation on the Hamming torus

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Abstract: The Hamming torus of dimension d is the graph with vertices 1,dots,nd and an edge between any two vertices that differ in a single coordinate. Bootstrap percolation with threshold heta starts with a random set of open vertices, to which every vertex belongs independently with probability p, and at each time step the open set grows by adjoining every vertex with at least heta open neighbors. We assume that n is large and that p scales as n−alpha for some alpha>1, and study the probability that an i-dimensional subgraph ever becomes open. For large heta, we prove that the critical exponent alpha is about 1+d/heta for i=1, and about 1+2/heta+Theta(heta−3/2) for ige2. Our small heta results are mostly limited to d=3, where we identify the critical alpha in many cases and, when heta=3, compute exactly the critical probability that the entire graph is eventually open.












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