Low Threshold Bootstrap Percolation on the Hamming Torus

Erik Slivken

Published 2014-07-09, updated 2015-06-04Version 2

This paper analyzes various questions pertaining to bootstrap percolation on the $d$-dimensional Hamming torus where each node is open with probability $p$ and the percolation threshold is 2. For each $d'<d$ we find the critical exponent for the event that a $d'$-dimensional subtorus becomes open and compute the limiting value of its probability under the critical scaling. For even $d'$, we use the Chen-Stein method to show that the number of $d'$-dimensional subtori that become open can be approximated by a Poisson random variable.