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2022 A phase transition between endogeny and nonendogeny
Balázs Ráth, Jan M. Swart, Márton Szőke
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Electron. J. Probab. 27: 1-43 (2022). DOI: 10.1214/22-EJP872

Abstract

The Marked Binary Branching Tree (MBBT) is the family tree of a rate one binary branching process, on which points have been generated according to a rate one Poisson point process, with i.i.d. uniformly distributed activation times assigned to the points. In frozen percolation on the MBBT, initially, all points are closed, but as time progresses points can become either frozen or open. Points become open at their activation times provided they have not become frozen before. Open points connect the parts of the tree below and above it and one says that a point percolates if the tree above it is infinite. We consider a version of frozen percolation on the MBBT in which at times of the form θn, all points that percolate are frozen. The limiting model for θ1, in which points freeze as soon as they percolate, has been studied before by Ráth, Swart, and Terpai. We extend their results by showing that there exists a 0<θ<1 such that the model is endogenous for θθ but not for θ>θ. This means that for θθ, frozen percolation is a.s. determined by the MBBT but for θ>θ one needs additional randomness to describe it.

Funding Statement

The work of B. Ráth was partially supported by grant NKFI-FK-123962 of NKFI (National Research, Development and Innovation Office), the Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the ÚNKP-20-5-BME-5 New National Excellence Program of the Ministry for Innovation and Technology, and the ERC Synergy under Grant No. 810115 - DYNASNET. J.M. Swart is supported by grant 20-08468S of the Czech Science Foundation (GA CR). The work of Márton Szőke is partially supported by the ERC Consolidator Grant 772466 “NOISE”.

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank both anonymous referees for their numerous constructive comments that improved the quality of this paper.

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Balázs Ráth. Jan M. Swart. Márton Szőke. "A phase transition between endogeny and nonendogeny." Electron. J. Probab. 27 1 - 43, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1214/22-EJP872

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Received: 27 March 2021; Accepted: 24 October 2022; Published: 2022
First available in Project Euclid: 8 November 2022

arXiv: 2103.14408
MathSciNet: MR4506680
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/22-EJP872

Subjects:
Primary: 82C27
Secondary: 60J80 , 60K35 , 82C26

Keywords: endogeny , frozen percolation , recursive distributional equation , recursive tree process

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