Strict majority bootstrap percolation in the \textit{r}-wheel

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DOI10.1016/J.IPL.2014.01.005zbMATH Open1284.68467arXiv1308.3831OpenAlexW2069174998MaRDI QIDQ2446567FDOQ2446567


Authors: Yanyan Li Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 17 April 2014

Published in: Information Processing Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we study the strict majority bootstrap percolation process on graphs. Vertices may be active or passive. Initially, active vertices are chosen independently with probability p. Each passive vertex becomes active if at least half of its neighbors are active (and thereafter never changes its state). If at the end of the process all vertices become active then we say that the initial set of active vertices percolates on the graph. We address the problem of finding graphs for which percolation is likely to occur for small values of p. Specifically, we study a graph that we call r-wheel: a ring of n vertices augmented with a universal vertex where each vertex in the ring is connected to its r closest neighbors to the left and to its r closest neighbors to the right. We prove that the critical probability is 1/4. In other words, if p>1/4 then for large values of r percolation occurs with probability arbitrarily close to 1 as n goes to infinity. On the other hand, if p<1/4 then the probability of percolation is bounded away from 1.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.3831




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