A new route to Explosive Percolation

S.S. Manna and Arnab Chatterjee

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2011, vol. 390, issue 2, 177-182

Abstract: The biased link occupation rule in the Achlioptas process (AP) discourages the large clusters from growing much ahead of others and encourages faster growth of clusters which lag behind. In this paper we propose a model where this tendency is sharply reflected in the Gamma distribution of the cluster sizes, unlike the power law distribution in AP. In this model single edges between pairs of clusters of sizes si and sj are occupied with a probability ∝(sisj)α. The parameter α is continuously tunable over the entire real axis. Numerical studies indicate that for α<αc the transition is first order, αc=0 for a square lattice and αc=−1/2 for random graphs. In the limits of α=−∞,+∞ this model coincides with models well established in the literature.

Keywords: Explosive Percolation; Percolation phenomena; First order transition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2010.10.009

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