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On the sizes of burnt and fireproof components for fires on a large Cayley tree

Probability 2016-02-17 v2

Abstract

We continue the study initiated by Jean Bertoin in 2012 of a random dynamics on the edges of a uniform Cayley tree with nn vertices in which, successively, each edge is either set on fire with some fixed probability pnp_n or fireproof with probability 1pn1-p_n. An edge which is set on fire burns and sets on fire its flammable neighbors, the fire then propagates in the tree, only stopped by fireproof edges. We study the distribution of the proportion of burnt and fireproof vertices and the sizes of the burnt or fireproof connected components as nn \to \infty regarding the asymptotic behavior of pnp_n.

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@article{arxiv.1310.5626,
  title  = {On the sizes of burnt and fireproof components for fires on a large Cayley tree},
  author = {Cyril Marzouk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.5626},
  year   = {2016}
}

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20 pages, 3 figures