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Monotone Cellular Automata in a Random Environment

Part of: Special processes Combinatorial probability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2015

BÉLA BOLLOBÁS ,
PAUL SMITH  and
ANDREW UZZELL
BÉLA BOLLOBÁS
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA, UK; Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA; London Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 35a South Street, London, W1K 2XF, UK (e-mail: [email protected])
PAUL SMITH
Affiliation:
IMPA, 110 Estrada Dona Castorina, Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro, 22460-320, Brazil (e-mail: [email protected])
ANDREW UZZELL
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University, PO Box 480, SE-751 06 Uppsala, Sweden (e-mail: [email protected])
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Abstract

In this paper we study in complete generality the family of two-state, deterministic, monotone, local, homogeneous cellular automata in $\mathbb{Z}$d with random initial configurations. Formally, we are given a set $\mathcal{U}$ = {X1,. . . , Xm} of finite subsets of $\mathbb{Z}$d \ {0}, and an initial set A0 ⊂ $\mathbb{Z}$d of ‘infected’ sites, which we take to be random according to the product measure with density p. At time t ∈ $\mathbb{N}$, the set of infected sites At is the union of At-1 and the set of all x ∈ $\mathbb{Z}$d such that x + X ∈ At-1 for some X ∈ $\mathcal{U}$. Our model may alternatively be thought of as bootstrap percolation on $\mathbb{Z}$d with arbitrary update rules, and for this reason we call it $\mathcal{U}$-bootstrap percolation.

In two dimensions, we give a classification of $\mathcal{U}$-bootstrap percolation models into three classes – supercritical, critical and subcritical – and we prove results about the phase transitions of all models belonging to the first two of these classes. More precisely, we show that the critical probability for percolation on ($\mathbb{Z}$/n$\mathbb{Z}$)2 is (log n)−Θ(1) for all models in the critical class, and that it is n−Θ(1) for all models in the supercritical class.

The results in this paper are the first of any kind on bootstrap percolation considered in this level of generality, and in particular they are the first that make no assumptions of symmetry. It is the hope of the authors that this work will initiate a new, unified theory of bootstrap percolation on $\mathbb{Z}$d.

MSC classification

Primary: 60K35: Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory
Secondary: 60C05: Combinatorial probability
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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 24 , Special Issue 4: Oberwolfach Special Issue Part 1 , July 2015 , pp. 687 - 722
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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