On the Behavior of Some Cellular Automata Related to Bootstrap Percolation
On the Behavior of Some Cellular Automata Related to Bootstrap Percolation
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关于与 Bootstrap 渗流相关的一些元胞自动机的行为
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1992
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R. Schonmann
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convergence to total occupancy, and irc, the threshold for this convergence to occur exponentially fast. We locate these critical points for all the bootstrap percolation models, showing that they are both 0 when 1 d. For certain rules in which the orientation is important, we show that 0 < Pc = ir- < 1, by relating these systems to oriented site percolation. Finally, these oriented models are used to obtain an estimate for a critical exponent of these models. 1. Introduction. The fields of interacting particle systems, mathematical statistical mechanics and percolation have benefited very much from their interrelations. Here we study a family of models which has arisen in the interface among these areas. Cellular automata, such as those studied in this article, may be considered as interacting particle systems [see Liggett (1985) for a survey of this field]. The relations between the models that we consider and percolation will become clear in many of the proofs given, but can already be guessed from the fact that some of these systems are known as "bootstrap percolation." Finally, relations with statistical mechanics, while not so explicit in this article, were clearly present, for instance, in the article by Chalupa, Leath and Reich (1979), where bootstrap percolation was introduced in connection to disordered magnetic systems. Also in Aizenman and Lebowitz (1988) the motivation for studying these systems came from the (nonequilibrium statistical mechanics) problem of metastability. Our main concern in this article will be with the critical behavior of our models, that is, how their behavior changes qualitatively as some parameters cross certain values (critical points). As usual, one of the main tools in the analysis of such phenomena will be a sort of renormalization procedure by