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Stretched exponential asymptotics for bases of triangular bootstrap percolation

Jul 2026 · 1 citation · 22 references
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Abstract

In this paper, we study a bootstrap percolation process on the finite triangular grid $\mathfrak{T}_n$ of side length $n$. We say that a subset $\eta$ of points in $\mathfrak{T}_n$ percolates if the final configuration, starting from $\eta$, is the whole grid $\mathfrak{T}_n$. A basis of size $n$ is then a subset of points of $\mathfrak{T}_n$ of minimum cardinality which percolates. In this paper, we first prove that the generating function counting bases satisfies an algebraic differential equation. Then, by analysing a modified version of this equation, we prove that the number $t_n$ of bases of size $n$ exhibits a stretched exponential asymptotic behaviour. More precisely, we show that $t_n \sim c n!e^{\sqrt{12n}}n^{5/12}$, for some constant $c>0$. These bases were recently shown by the second author to be in bijection with $3$-permutations avoiding the patterns $(12, 12)$ and $(231, 312)$, so this represents to our knowledge the first proven example of an asymptotic stretched exponential appearing in the study of pattern avoiding permutations.

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