Events
Fall 2018

Polynomial method and graph bootstrap percolation
Friday, Nov. 9, 2018 10:30 am – 12:00 pm PST
Parent Program:
Speaker:
Hamed Hatami (McGill University)
Location:
Room 116
We introduce a simple method for proving lower bounds for the size of the smallest percolating set in a certain graph bootstrap process. We apply this method to determine the sizes of the smallest percolating sets in multidimensional tori and multidimensional grids (in particular hypercubes). The former answers a question of Morrison and Noel, and the latter provides an alternative and simpler proof for one of their main results.
This is based on a joint work with Lianna Hambardzumyan and Yingjie Qian.