Minimum degree conditions for small percolating sets in bootstrap percolation

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Abstract: The r-neighbour bootstrap process is an update rule for the states of vertices in which `uninfected' vertices with at least r `infected' neighbours become infected and a set of initially infected vertices is said to emph{percolate} if eventually all vertices are infected. For every rgeq3, a sharp condition is given for the minimum degree of a sufficiently large graph that guarantees the existence of a percolating set of size r. In the case r=3, for n large enough, any graph on n vertices with minimum degree lfloorn/2floor+1 has a percolating set of size 3 and for rgeq4 and n large enough (in terms of r), every graph on n vertices with minimum degree lfloorn/2floor+(r3) has a percolating set of size r. A class of examples are given to show the sharpness of these results.









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