Nucleation and growth in two dimensions

DOI10.1002/RSA.20888zbMATH Open1453.82076arXiv1508.06267OpenAlexW2981344396MaRDI QIDQ5113932FDOQ5113932

Béla Bollobás, Robert Morris, Leonardo T. Rolla, Simon Griffiths, Paul Smith

Publication date: 19 June 2020

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

Abstract: We consider a dynamical process on a graph $G$, in which vertices are infected (randomly) at a rate which depends on the number of their neighbours that are already infected. This model includes bootstrap percolation and first-passage percolation as its extreme points. We give a precise description of the evolution of this process on the graph $mathbb{Z}^2$, significantly sharpening results of Dehghanpour and Schonmann. In particular, we determine the typical infection time up to a constant factor for almost all natural values of the parameters, and in a large range we obtain a stronger, sharp threshold.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06267

zbMATH Keywords

first passage percolationbootstrap percolationrandom spatial growth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Epidemiology (92D30) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Time-dependent percolation in statistical mechanics (82C43)

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