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Strong-majority bootstrap percolation on regular graphs with low dissemination threshold

Combinatorics 2015-03-31 v1 Discrete Mathematics Probability

Abstract

Consider the following model of strong-majority bootstrap percolation on a graph. Let r be some positive integer, and p in [0,1]. Initially, every vertex is active with probability p, independently from all other vertices. Then, at every step of the process, each vertex v of degree deg(v) becomes active if at least (deg(v)+r)/2 of its neighbours are active. Given any arbitrarily small p>0 and any integer r, we construct a family of d=d(p,r)-regular graphs such that with high probability all vertices become active in the end. In particular, the case r=1 answers a question and disproves a conjecture of Rapaport, Suchan, Todinca, and Verstraete (Algorithmica, 2011).

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@article{arxiv.1503.08310,
  title  = {Strong-majority bootstrap percolation on regular graphs with low dissemination threshold},
  author = {Dieter Mitsche and Xavier Pérez-Giménez and Paweł Prałat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.08310},
  year   = {2015}
}
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