A sharp threshold for bootstrap percolation in a random hypergraph

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Abstract: Given a hypergraph mathcalH, the mathcalH-bootstrap process starts with an initial set of infected vertices of mathcalH and, at each step, a healthy vertex v becomes infected if there exists a hyperedge of mathcalH in which v is the unique healthy vertex. We say that the set of initially infected vertices percolates if every vertex of mathcalH is eventually infected. We show that this process exhibits a sharp threshold when mathcalH is a hypergraph obtained by randomly sampling hyperedges from an approximately d-regular r-uniform hypergraph satisfying some mild degree and codegree conditions; this confirms a conjecture of Morris. As a corollary, we obtain a sharp threshold for a variant of the graph bootstrap process for strictly 2-balanced graphs which generalises a result of Kor'{a}ndi, Peled and Sudakov. Our approach involves an application of the differential equations method.



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