Wednesday, October 10, 2012

1110.4288 (S. Boettcher et al.)

Ordinary Percolation with Discontinuous Transitions    [PDF]

S. Boettcher, V. Singh, R. M. Ziff
Percolation on a one-dimensional lattice and fractals such as the Sierpinski gasket is typically considered to be trivial because they percolate only at full bond density. By dressing up such lattices with small-world bonds, a novel percolation transition with explosive cluster growth can emerge at a nontrivial critical point. There, the usual order parameter, describing the probability of any node to be part of the largest cluster, jumps instantly to a finite value. Here, we provide a simple example of this transition in form of a small-world network consisting of a one-dimensional lattice combined with a hierarchy of long-range bonds that reveals many features of the transition in a mathematically rigorous manner.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.4288

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