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arxiv: 2303.14910 · v2 · pith:3NDNPQBTnew · submitted 2023-03-27 · 🧮 math.PR

Sensitive bootstrap percolation second term

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keywords bootstrapinfectedmodelpercolationclassicalfracmodifiedneighbours
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In modified two-neighbour bootstrap percolation in two dimensions each site of $\mathbb Z^2$ is initially independently infected with probability $p$ and on each discrete time step one additionally infects sites with at least two non-opposite infected neighbours. In this note we establish that for this model the second term in the asymptotics of the infection time $\tau$ unexpectedly scales differently from the classical two-neighbour model, in which arbitrary two infected neighbours are required. More precisely, we show that for modified bootstrap percolation with high probability as $p\to0$ it holds that \[\tau\le \exp\left(\frac{\pi^2}{6p}-\frac{c\log(1/p)}{\sqrt p}\right)\] for some positive constant $c$, while the classical model is known to lack the logarithmic factor.

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