The density-of-the-closure conjecture for subcritical d53cd53c-bootstrap percolation

Let AA be the initially occupied random set in a subcritical d53cd53c-bootstrap percolation model on d5392d539^2, let [A][A] be its closure, and define

D(n)=[n,n]2[A][n,n]2.D(n)=\frac{\left|[-n,n]^2\cap[A]\right|}{\left|[-n,n]^2\right|}.

Density-of-the-closure conjecture. For every p[0,1]p\in[0,1], there exists a constant δ(p)\delta(p) such that D(n)D(n) converges in probability to δ(p)\delta(p) as nn\rightarrow\infty.

The conjecture asserts that sites in the closure should be reasonably well scattered. If true, questions about continuity of δ(p)\delta(p) at p=pcp=p_c and the behaviour of δ(p)p\delta(p)-p as p0p\rightarrow0 remain open.

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Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Michał Przykucki and Paul Smith, “Subcritical U-bootstrap percolation models have non-trivial phase transitions”, arXiv:1311.5883 (2014).

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