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Title: Graph bootstrap percolation

Abstract: Graph bootstrap percolation is a deterministic cellular automaton which was introduced by Bollob\'as in 1968, and is defined as follows. Given a graph $H$, and a set $G \subset E(K_n)$ of initially `infected' edges, we infect, at each time step, a new edge $e$ if there is a copy of $H$ in $K_n$ such that $e$ is the only not-yet infected edge of $H$. We say that $G$ percolates in the $H$-bootstrap process if eventually every edge of $K_n$ is infected. The extremal questions for this model, when $H$ is the complete graph $K_r$, were solved (independently) by Alon, Kalai and Frankl almost thirty years ago. In this paper we study the random questions, and determine the critical probability $p_c(n,K_r)$ for the $K_r$-process up to a poly-logarithmic factor. In the case $r = 4$ we prove a stronger result, and determine the threshold for $p_c(n,K_4)$.
Comments: 27 pages
Subjects: Combinatorics (math.CO); Probability (math.PR)
Cite as: arXiv:1107.1381 [math.CO]
  (or arXiv:1107.1381v2 [math.CO] for this version)

Submission history

From: Robert Morris [view email]
[v1] Thu, 7 Jul 2011 13:44:52 GMT (27kb)
[v2] Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:16:31 GMT (27kb)