The sharp threshold for bootstrap percolation in all dimensions

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 364, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2667-2701

  Balogh, József ^a,b   Bollobás, Béla ^c,d   Duminil Copin, Hugo ^e   Morris, Robert ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^f IMPA   (Brazil)

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EID: 84856626225     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-2011-05552-2     Document Type: Article

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