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- From: trm+@CS.CMU.EDU (Thomas Mathies)
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- Subject: Re: Percolation on the Plane
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.043942.272572@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 04:39:42 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cs.1992Jul26.043942.272572
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- In article <CHALCRAFT.92Jul10104635@laurel.uk.tele.nokia.fi>, chalcraft@uk.tele.nokia.fi (Adam Chalcraft) writes:
- ...
- >For tilings where four or more pieces can meet, it would be nice to know
- >which results still hold.
- ...
-
- For a tiling with squares this is a site percolation problem. Each square is colored
- white with probability p and black otherwise. For what values of p does there exist
- an infinite contiguous set of white squares (with prob. 1)?
-
- Consider two types of adjacency when the plane is tiled with squares:
- 1) Nearest neighbor rule (each square has four neighbors); and
- 2) Next-nearest neighbor rule (each square has eight neighbors).
-
- Using the nearest neighbor rule, the critical probability is about 0.59275
- according to Stauffer [1] (p. 17). There are three regions of interest:
- 0 <= p < 0.40725 --> infinite contiguous set of black squares
- 0.40725 <= p <= 0.59275 --> no infinite contiguous set of either color
- 0.59275 < p <= 1 --> infinite contiguous set of white squares
-
- I just got a paper [2] on the next-nearest case which gives the critical probability
- as 0.391. Again there are three regions of interest (with the middle one differing
- from above):
- 0 <= p <= 0.391 --> infinite contiguous set of black squares
- 0.391 < p < 0.609 --> infinite contiguous sets of each color
- 0.609 <= p <= 1 --> infinite contiguous set of white squares
-
- Notes:
- 1) The values for the critical probabilities were obtained by computer simulation
- and extrapolation.
- 2) I've arranged the inequalities based on a statement by Grimmet [3] (p. 164)
- that no infinite contiguous set exists at the critical probability.
-
- References:
-
- 1. D. Stauffer, INTRODUCTION TO PERCOLATION THEORY, Taylor and Francis, 1985.
- 2. Shaohua Qu, K.L. Yao, and Boming Yu, "Study of the two-dimensional next-nearest-
- neighbor percolation model," CHINESE PHYSICS, vol. 11 #4, Oct-Dec 1991,
- pp 806-811.
- 3. G. Grimmett, PERCOLATION, Springer-Verlag, 1989.
-
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- Tom Mathies <mathies@cs.cmu.edu>
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