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Theory of Combinatorial Algorithms

Prof. Emo Welzl and Prof. Bernd Gärtner

Mittagsseminar (in cooperation with J. Lengler, A. Steger, and D. Steurer)

Mittagsseminar Talk Information

Date and Time: Thursday, November 13, 2008, 12:15 pm

Duration: This information is not available in the database

Location: OAT S15/S16/S17

Speaker: Dominik Scheder

Bollobás' and Riordan's Proof of the Harris-Kesten Theorem

Consider the infinite two-dimensional integer grid, i.e. the graph with the grid points Z2, and edges between any two points of unit distance. Choose a random subgraph G by including each edge of the grid with probability p, independently of each other. The Harris-Kesten theorem states that the probability that G contains an infinite connected component is 0 for p ≤ 1/2 and 1 for p > 1/2. The original proof is quite technical, but in 2006 the paper mentioned below gives a short and beautiful proof of it.

Béla Bollobás and Oliver Riordan, A Short Proof of the Harris-Kesten Theorem, Bull. London Math. Soc. v38. 470-484, 2006.


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