Critical probabilities and convergence time of Percolation Probabilistic Cellular Automata

We study self-similarity in one-dimensional probabilistic cellular automata (PCA) using the renormalization technique. We introduce a general framework for algebraic construction of renormalization groups (RG) on cellular automata and apply it to exhaustively search the rule space for automata displaying dynamic criticality. Previous studies have shown that there exists several exactly renormalizable deterministic automata. We show that the RG fixed points for such self-simil...

We prove that for Voronoi percolation on $\mathbb{R}^d$, there exists $p_c\in[0,1]$ such that - for $p<p_c$, there exists $c_p>0$ such that $\mathbb{P}_p[0\text{ connected to distance }n]\leq \exp(-c_p n)$, - there exists $c>0$ such that for $p>p_c$, $\mathbb{P}_p[0\text{ connected to }\infty]\geq c(p-p_c)$. For dimension 2, this result offers a new way of showing that $p_c(2)=1/2$. This paper belongs to a series of papers using the theory of algorithms to prove sharpne...

Stavskaya's model is a one-dimensional probabilistic cellular automaton (PCA) introduced in the end of the 1960's as an example of a model displaying a nonequilibrium phase transition. Although its absorbing state phase transition is well understood nowadays, the model never received a full numerical treatment to investigate its critical behavior. In this short article we characterize the critical behavior of Stavskaya's PCA by means of Monte Carlo simulations and finite-size...

We study monotone cellular automata (also known as $\mathcal{U}$-bootstrap percolation) in $\mathbb{Z}^d$ with random initial configurations. Confirming a conjecture of Balister, Bollob\'as, Przykucki and Smith, who proved the corresponding result in two dimensions, we show that the critical probability is non-zero for all subcritical models.

Consider an independent site percolation model with parameter $p \in (0,1)$ on $\Z^d,\ d\geq 2$ where there are only nearest neighbor bonds and long range bonds of length $k$ parallel to each coordinate axis. We show that the percolation threshold of such model converges to $p_c(\Z^{2d})$ when $k$ goes to infinity, the percolation threshold for ordinary (nearest neighbour) percolation on $\Z^{2d}$. We also generalize this result for models whose long range bonds have several ...

In this paper, we consider Bernoulli percolation on a locally finite, transitive and infinite graph (e.g. the hypercubic lattice $\mathbb{Z}^d$). We prove the following estimate, where $\theta_n(p)$ is the probability that there is a path of $p$-open edges from $0$ to the sphere of radius $n$: \[ \forall p\in [0,1],\forall m,n \ge 1, \quad \theta_{2n} (p-2\theta_m(p))\le C\frac{\theta_n(p)}{2^{n/m}}. \] This result implies that $\theta_n(p)$ decays exponentially fast in the s...

Using Pade approximations and Monte Carlo simulations, we study the phase diagram of the Two-Neighbor Stochastic Cellular Automata, which have two parameters $p_{1}$ and $p_{2}$ and include the mixed site-bond directed percolation (DP) as a special case. The phase transition line $p_{1}=p_{1 {\rm c}}(p_{2})$ has endpoints at $(p_{1}, p_{2})=(1/2,1)$ and at (0.8092, 0). The former point (1/2,1) is a special point at which Compact DP transition occurs and its critical exponents...

Bootstrap percolation is a wide class of monotone cellular automata with random initial state. In this work we develop tools for studying in full generality one of the three `universality' classes of bootstrap percolation models in two dimensions, termed subcritical. We introduce the new notion of `critical densities' serving the role of `difficulties' for critical models, but adapted to subcritical ones. We characterise the critical probability in terms of these quantities a...

We present a probabilistic cellular automaton with two absorbing states, which can be considered a natural extension of the Domany-Kinzel model. Despite its simplicity, it shows a very rich phase diagram, with two second-order and one first-order transition lines that meet at a tricritical point. We study the phase transitions and the critical behavior of the model using mean field approximations, direct numerical simulations and field theory. A closed form for the dynamics o...

We provide a new proof of the sharpness of the phase transition for nearest-neighbour Bernoulli percolation. More precisely, we show that - for $p<p_c$, the probability that the origin is connected by an open path to distance $n$ decays exponentially fast in $n$. - for $p>p_c$, the probability that the origin belongs to an infinite cluster satisfies the mean-field lower bound $\theta(p)\ge\tfrac{p-p_c}{p(1-p_c)}$. This note presents the argument of \cite{DumTas15}, whic...