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Lower bounds for graph bootstrap percolation via properties of polynomials

Combinatorics 2021-05-11 v2

Abstract

We introduce a simple method for proving lower bounds for the size of the smallest percolating set in a certain graph bootstrap process. We apply this method to determine the sizes of the smallest percolating sets in multidimensional tori and multidimensional grids (in particular hypercubes). The former answers a question of Morrison and Noel, and the latter provides an alternative and simpler proof for one of their main results.

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@article{arxiv.1708.04640,
  title  = {Lower bounds for graph bootstrap percolation via properties of polynomials},
  author = {Lianna Hambardzumyan and Hamed Hatami and Yingjie Qian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.04640},
  year   = {2021}
}
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