Anisotropic bootstrap percolation in three dimensions

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Abstract: Consider a p-random subset A of initially infected vertices in the discrete cube [L]3, and assume that the neighbourhood of each vertex consists of the ai nearest neighbours in the pmei-directions for each iin1,2,3, where a1lea2lea3. Suppose we infect any healthy vertex xin[L]3 already having a3+1 infected neighbours, and that infected sites remain infected forever. In this paper we determine the critical length for percolation up to a constant factor in the exponent, for all triples (a1,a2,a3). To do so, we introduce a new algorithm called the beams process and prove an exponential decay property for a family of subcritical two-dimensional bootstrap processes.









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