The second largest component in the supercritical 2D Hamming graph

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Abstract: The 2-dimensional Hamming graph H(2,n) consists of the n2 vertices (i,j), 1leqi,jleqn, two vertices being adjacent when they share a common coordinate. We examine random subgraphs of H(2,n) in percolation with edge probability p, so that the average degree 2(n1)p=1+epsilon. Previous work by van der Hofstad and Luczak had shown that in the barely supercritical region n2/3ln1/3nllepsilonll1 the largest component has size sim2epsilonn. Here we show that the second largest component has size close to epsilon2, so that the dominant component has emerged. This result also suggests that a {it discrete duality principle} might hold, whereby, after removing the largest connected component in the supercritical regime, the remaining random subgraphs behave as in the subcritical regime.









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