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The theme of this paper is the analysis of bootstrap percolation processes on random graphs generated by preferential attachment. This is a class of infection processes where vertices have two states: they are either infected or…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-12-23 Mohammed Amin Abdullah , Nikolaos Fountoulakis

For fixed $r\geq 2$, we consider bootstrap percolation with threshold $r$ on the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graph ${\cal G}_{n,p}$. We identify a threshold for $p$ above which there is with high probability a set of size $r$ which can infect the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Omer Angel , Brett Kolesnik

In bootstrap percolation it is known that the critical percolation threshold tends to converge slowly to zero with increasing system size, or, inversely, the critical size diverges fast when the percolation probability goes to zero. To…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-02-04 Aernout C. D. van Enter

We consider the $r$-neighbor bootstrap percolation process on the graph with vertex set $V=\{0,1\}^n$ and edges connecting the pairs at Hamming distance $1,2,\dots,k$, where $k\ge 2$. We find asymptotics of the critical probability of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Fengxing Zhu

We study the class of monotone, two-state, deterministic cellular automata, in which sites are activated (or 'infected') by certain configurations of nearby infected sites. These models have close connections to statistical physics, and…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-09 Béla Bollobás , Hugo Duminil-Copin , Robert Morris , Paul Smith

The $r$-neighbour bootstrap process describes an infection process on a graph, where we start with a set of initially infected vertices and an uninfected vertex becomes infected as soon as it has $r$ infected neighbours. An inital set of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-11 Alexandra Wesolek

Bootstrap percolation is a cellular automaton modelling the spread of an `infection' on a graph. In this note, we prove a family of lower bounds on the critical probability for $r$-neighbour bootstrap percolation on Galton--Watson trees in…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-02-19 Karen Gunderson , Michał Przykucki

We consider a classic model known as bootstrap percolation on the $n \times n$ square grid. To each vertex of the grid we assign an initial state, infected or healthy, and then in consecutive rounds we infect every healthy vertex that has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-06 Fabricio Benevides , Michał Przykucki

The bootstrap percolation (or threshold model) is a dynamic process modelling the propagation of an epidemic on a graph, where inactive vertices become active if their number of active neighbours reach some threshold. We study an…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-01-19 Alberto Guggiola , Guilhem Semerjian

Bootstrap percolation on an arbitrary graph has a random initial configuration, where each vertex is occupied with probability p, independently of each other, and a deterministic spreading rule with a fixed parameter k: if a vacant site has…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-04-26 Jozsef Balogh , Yuval Peres , Gabor Pete

We study a variant of bootstrap percolation in which growth is restricted to a single active cluster. Initially there is a single active site at the origin, while other sites of Z^2 are independently occupied with small probability p,…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-06-16 Janko Gravner , Alexander E. Holroyd

The $r$-neighbor bootstrap percolation is a graph infection process based on the update rule by which a vertex with $r$ infected neighbors becomes infected. We say that an initial set of infected vertices propagates if all vertices of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Boštjan Brešar , Jaka Hedžet , Rebekah Herrman

Majority bootstrap percolation is a monotone cellular automata that can be thought of as a model of infection spreading in networks. Starting with an initially infected set, new vertices become infected once more than half of their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Maurício Collares , Joshua Erde , Anna Geisler , Mihyun Kang

Bootstrap percolation in (random) graphs is a contagion dynamics among a set of vertices with certain threshold levels. The process is started by a set of initially infected vertices, and an initially uninfected vertex with threshold $k$…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-03 Nils Detering , Jimin Lin

In the polluted modified bootstrap percolation model, sites in the square lattice are independently initially occupied with probability $p$ or closed with probability $q$. A site becomes occupied at a subsequent step if it is not closed and…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Janko Gravner , Alexander Holroyd , Sangchul Lee , David Sivakoff

We study two-dimensional critical bootstrap percolation models. We establish that a class of these models including all isotropic threshold rules with a convex symmetric neighbourhood, undergoes a sharp metastability transition. This…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Hugo Duminil-Copin , Ivailo Hartarsky

Consider a $p$-random subset $A$ of initially infected vertices in the discrete cube $[L]^3$, and assume that the neighbourhood of each vertex consists of the $a_i$ nearest neighbours in the $\pm e_i$-directions for each $i \in \{1,2,3\}$,…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-28 Daniel Blanquicett

Majority bootstrap percolation is a model of infection spreading in networks. Starting with a set of initially infected vertices, new vertices become infected once half of their neighbours are infected. Balogh, Bollob\'{a}s and Morris…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Maurício Collares , Joshua Erde , Anna Geisler , Mihyun Kang

Bootstrap percolation on the random graph $G_{n,p}$ is a process of spread of "activation" on a given realization of the graph with a given number of initially active nodes. At each step those vertices which have not been active but have at…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-22 Svante Janson , Tomasz Łuczak , Tatyana Turova , Thomas Vallier

For $r\geq1$, the $r$-neighbour bootstrap process in a graph $G$ starts with a set of infected vertices and, in each time step, every vertex with at least $r$ infected neighbours becomes infected. The initial infection percolates if every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-01 Peter J. Dukes , Jonathan A. Noel , Abel E. Romer