Metastable behavior for bootstrap percolation on regular trees

Details Metastable behavior for bootstrap percolation on regular trees Metastable behavior for bootstrap percolation on regular trees

2009-04-25

arxiv.org/abs/0904.3965v2

J. Statist. Phys. 136 (2009), no. 4, 667-676

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Probability

10 pages, version to appear in J. Statist. Phys

Scientific paper

10.1007/s10955-009-9798-x

We examine bootstrap percolation on a regular (b+1)-ary tree with initial law given by Bernoulli(p). The sites are updated according to the usual rule: a vacant site becomes occupied if it has at least theta occupied neighbors, occupied sites remain occupied forever. It is known that, when b>theta>1, the limiting density q=q(p) of occupied sites exhibits a jump at some p_t=p_t(b,theta) in (0,1) from q_t:=q(p_t)<1 to q(p)=1 when p>p_t. We investigate the metastable behavior associated with this transition. Explicitly, we pick p=p_t+h with h>0 and show that, as h decreases to 0, the system lingers around the "critical" state for time order h^{-1/2} and then passes to fully occupied state in time O(1). The law of the entire configuration observed when the occupation density is q in (q_t,1) converges, as h tends to 0, to a well-defined measure.

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