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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…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Lianna Hambardzumyan , Hamed Hatami , Yingjie Qian

For $k$-graphs $F$ and $H_0$ the $F$-bootstrap percolation process (or $F$-process) starting with $H_0$ is a sequence $(H_i)_{i\geq0}$ of $k$-graphs such that $H_{i+1}$ is obtained from $H_i$ by adding all those $e\in V(H_0)^{(k)}\setminus…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Weichan Liu , Bjarne Schülke , Xin Zhang

A bootstrap percolation process on a graph G is an "infection" process which evolves in rounds. Initially, there is a subset of infected nodes and in each subsequent round every uninfected node which has at least r infected neighbours…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-30 Hamed Amini , Nikolaos Fountoulakis , Konstantinos Panagiotou

For $k$-graphs $F$ and $H_0$ the $F$-bootstrap percolation process (or $F$-process) starting with $H_0$ is a sequence $(H_i)_{i\geq0}$ of $k$-graphs such that $H_{i+1}$ is obtained from $H_i$ by adding all those $e\in V(H_0)^{(k)}\setminus…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Weichan Liu , Xiangxiang Nie , Simón Piga , Bjarne Schülke

We study an extremal question for the (reversible) $r-$bootstrap percolation processes. Given a graph and an initial configuration where each vertex is active or inactive, in the $r-$bootstrap percolation process the following rule is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Clemens Jeger , Ahad N. Zehmakan

In r-neighbour bootstrap percolation on the vertex set of a graph G, vertices are initially infected independently with some probability p. At each time step, the infected set expands by infecting all uninfected vertices that have at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-01 Béla Bollobás , Cecilia Holmgren , Paul Smith , Andrew J. Uzzell

We improve the status of the problem of determining minimum-sized percolating sets in $a \times b \times c$ grids under the $3$-neighbour process. Using several new constructions, we show that optimal percolating sets exist whenever…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Will Dolphin , Peter J. Dukes

Motivated by the bootstrap percolation process for graphs, we define a new, high-order generalisation to $k$-uniform hypergraphs, in which we infect $j$-sets of vertices for some integer $1\le j \le k-1$. We investigate the smallest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Oliver Cooley , Julian Zalla

We study the following bootstrap percolation process: given a connected graph $G$, a constant $\rho \in [0, 1]$ and an initial set $A \subseteq V(G)$ of \emph{infected} vertices, at each step a vertex~$v$ becomes infected if at least a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-03 Frederik Garbe , Andrew McDowell , Richard Mycroft

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

Bootstrap percolation on a graph is a deterministic process that iteratively enlarges a set of occupied sites by adjoining points with at least $\theta$ occupied neighbors. The initially occupied set is random, given by a uniform product…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-07-30 Janko Gravner , David Sivakoff

The Hamming graph $H(d,n)$ is the Cartesian product of $d$ complete graphs on $n$ vertices. Let $m=d(n-1)$ be the degree and $V = n^d$ be the number of vertices of $H(d,n)$. Let $p_c^{(d)}$ be the critical point for bond percolation on…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Lorenzo Federico , Remco van der Hofstad , Frank den Hollander , Tim Hulshof

A bootstrap percolation process on a graph $G$ is an "infection" process which evolves in rounds. Initially, there is a subset of infected nodes and in each subsequent round each uninfected node which has at least $r$ infected neighbours…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-08-15 Hamed Amini , Nikolaos Fountoulakis

Given two graphs $G$ and $H$, it is said that $G$ percolates in $H$-bootstrap process if one could join all the nonadjacent pairs of vertices of $G$ in some order such that a new copy of $H$ is created at each step. Balogh, Bollob\'as and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-28 M. R. Bidgoli , A. Mohammadian , B. Tayfeh-Rezaie

On a geometric model for complex networks (introduced by Krioukov et al.) we investigate the bootstrap percolation process. This model consists of random geometric graphs on the hyperbolic plane having $N$ vertices, a dependent version of…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-08-25 Elisabetta Candellero , Nikolaos Fountoulakis

In $r$-neighbour bootstrap percolation, vertices (sites) of a graph $G$ are infected, round-by-round, if they have $r$ neighbours already infected. Once infected, they remain infected. An initial set of infected sites is said to percolate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Ivailo Hartarsky

Given a fixed graph $H$ and an $n$-vertex graph $G$, the $H$-bootstrap percolation process on $G$ is defined to be the sequence of graphs $G_i$, $i\geq 0$ which starts with $G_0:=G$ and in which $G_{i+1}$ is obtained from $G_i$ by adding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-28 David Fabian , Patrick Morris , Tibor Szabó

This paper is dedicated to the study of the interaction between dynamical systems and percolation models, with views towards the study of viral infections whose virus mutate with time. Recall that r-bootstrap percolation describes a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-08 Yuyuan Luo , Laura P. Schaposnik

In $\HH$-bootstrap percolation, a set $A \subset V(\HH)$ of initially 'infected' vertices spreads by infecting vertices which are the only uninfected vertex in an edge of the hypergraph $\HH$. A particular case of this is the $H$-bootstrap…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-28 József Balogh , Béla Bollobás , Robert Morris , Oliver Riordan

Graph-bootstrap percolation, also known as weak saturation, was introduced by Bollob\'as in 1968. In this process, we start with initial "infected" set of edges $E_0$, and we infect new edges according to a predetermined rule. Given a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-11 József Balogh , Gal Kronenberg , Alexey Pokrovskiy , Tibor Szabó