Rational values of the weak saturation limit
Combinatorics
2026-02-10 v2
Abstract
Given a graph , a graph is weakly -saturated if all non-edges of can be added in some order so that each new edge introduces a copy of . The weak saturation number is the minimum number of edges in a weakly -saturated graph on vertices. Bollob\'as initiated the study of weak saturation in 1968 to study percolation processes, which originated in biology and have applications in physics and computer science. It was shown by Alon that for each , there is a constant such that . We characterize all possible rational values of , proving in particular that can equal any rational number at least .
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@article{arxiv.2501.15686,
title = {Rational values of the weak saturation limit},
author = {Ruben Ascoli and Xiaoyu He},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.15686},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
16 pages, 3 figures. This new version includes a stronger result for each fixed minimum degree, with a simplified proof