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A Solidification Phenomenon in Random Packings

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We prove that uniformly random packings of copies of a certain simply-connected figure in the plane exhibit global connectedness at all sufficiently high densities, but not at low densities.

Cite

@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0512686,
  title  = {A Solidification Phenomenon in Random Packings},
  author = {Lewis Bowen and Russell Lyons and Charles Radin and Peter Winkler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0512686},
  year   = {2007}
}