The critical probability for confetti percolation equals 1/2

DOI10.1002/RSA.20675zbMATH Open1370.60191arXiv1504.07879OpenAlexW2226815080MaRDI QIDQ4978434FDOQ4978434

Authors: Tobias Müller 

Publication date: 10 August 2017

Published in: Random Structures \& Algorithms (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the confetti percolation model, or two-coloured dead leaves model, radius one disks arrive on the plane according to a space-time Poisson process. Each disk is coloured black with probability $p$ and white with probability $1-p$. In this paper we show that the critical probability for confetti percolation equals $1/2$. That is, if $p>1/2$ then a.s.~there is an unbounded curve in the plane all of whose points are black; while if $pleq1/2$ then a.s.~all connected components of the set of black points are bounded. This answers a question of Benjamini and Schramm. The proof builds on earlier work by Hirsch and makes use of an adaptation of a sharp thresholds result of Bourgain.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.07879

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zbMATH Keywords

critical probabilitydead leaves modelconfetti percolation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35)

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