ID: math/0311125

Bootstrap percolation on infinite trees and non-amenable groups

November 8, 2003

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Jozsef Balogh, Yuval Peres, Gabor Pete
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Probability
Group Theory

Bootstrap percolation on an arbitrary graph has a random initial configuration, where each vertex is occupied with probability p, independently of each other, and a deterministic spreading rule with a fixed parameter k: if a vacant site has at least k occupied neighbors at a certain time step, then it becomes occupied in the next step. This process is well-studied on Z^d; here we investigate it on regular and general infinite trees and on non-amenable Cayley graphs. The critical probability is the infimum of those values of p for which the process achieves complete occupation with positive probability. On general trees, we find the following discontinuity: if the branching number of a tree is strictly smaller than k, then the critical probability is 1, while it is 1-1/k on the k-ary tree. A related result is that in any rooted tree T, there is a way of erasing k children of the root, together with all their descendants, and repeating this for all remaining children, and so on, such that the remaining tree T' has branching number \br(T') \leq \max (\br(T)-k, 0). We also prove that on any 2k-regular non-amenable graph, the critical probability for the k-rule is strictly positive.

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