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(n−1)p=1+epsilon. Previous work by van der Hofstad and Luczak had shown that in the barely supercritical region n−2/3ln1/3nllepsilonll1 the largest component has size sim2epsilonn. Here we show that the second largest component has size close to epsilon−2, 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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