Sharp thresholds and percolation in the plane

نویسندگان

  • Béla Bollobás
  • Oliver Riordan
چکیده

Recently, it was shown in [4] that the critical probability for random Voronoi percolation in the plane is 1/2. As a by-product of the method, a short proof of the Harris-Kesten Theorem was given in [5]. The aim of this paper is to show that the techniques used in these papers can be applied to many other planar percolation models, both to obtain short proofs of known results, and to prove new ones.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Random Struct. Algorithms

دوره 29  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006