Percolation theory

Short description: Mathematical theory on behavior of connected clusters in a random graph

In statistical physics and mathematics, percolation theory describes the behavior of a network when nodes or links are added. This is a geometric type of phase transition, since at a critical fraction of addition the network of small, disconnected clusters merge into significantly larger connected, so-called spanning clusters. The applications of percolation theory to materials science and in many other disciplines are discussed here and in the articles Network theory and Percolation (cognitive psychology).

Introduction

A three-dimensional site percolation graph

Bond percolation in a square lattice from p=0.3 to p=0.52

A representative question (and the source of the name) is as follows. Assume that some liquid is poured on top of some porous material. Will the liquid be able to make its way from hole to hole and reach the bottom? This physical question is modelled mathematically as a three-dimensional network of $n \times n \times n$ vertices, usually called "sites", in which the edge or "bonds" between each two neighbors may be open (allowing the liquid through) with probability $p$ , or closed with probability $1 - p$ , and they are assumed to be independent. Therefore, for a given $p$ , what is the probability that an open path (meaning a path, each of whose links is an "open" bond) exists from the top to the bottom? The behavior for large $n$ is of primary interest. This problem, called now bond percolation, was introduced in the mathematics literature by (Broadbent Hammersley),^[1] and has been studied intensively by mathematicians and physicists since then.

In a slightly different mathematical model for obtaining a random graph, a site is "occupied" with probability $p$ or "empty" (in which case its edges are removed) with probability $1 - p$ ; the corresponding problem is called site percolation. The question is the same: for a given p, what is the probability that a path exists between top and bottom? Similarly, one can ask, given a connected graph at what fraction $1 - p$ of failures the graph will become disconnected (no large component).

A 3D tube network percolation determination

The same questions can be asked for any lattice dimension. As is quite typical, it is actually easier to examine infinite networks than just large ones. In this case the corresponding question is: does an infinite open cluster exist? That is, is there a path of connected points of infinite length "through" the network? By Kolmogorov's zero–one law, for any given $p$ , the probability that an infinite cluster exists is either zero or one. Since this probability is an increasing function of $p$ (proof via coupling argument), there must be a critical $p$ (denoted by $p c$ ) below which the probability is always 0 and above which the probability is always 1. In practice, this criticality is very easy to observe. Even for $n$ as small as 100, the probability of an open path from the top to the bottom increases sharply from very close to zero to very close to one in a short span of values of $p$ .

Detail of a bond percolation on the square lattice in two dimensions with percolation probability

p = 0.51

History

The Flory–Stockmayer theory was the first theory investigating percolation processes.^[2]

The history of the percolation model as we know it has its root in the coal industry. Since the industrial revolution, the economical importance of this source of energy fostered many scientific studies to understand its composition and optimize its use. During the 30' and 40'^[when?], the qualitative analysis by organic chemistry left more and more room to more quantitative studies. ^[3]

In this context, the British Coal Utilisation Research Association (BCURA) was created in 1938. It is a research association funded by the coal mines owners. In 1942, Rosalind Franklin, who then recently graduated in chemistry from the university of Cambridge, joined the BCURA. She started research on the density and porosity of coal. During the Second World War, coal was an important strategic resource. It was used as a source of energy, but also was the main constituent of gas masks.

Coal is a porous medium. To measure its 'real' density, one was to sink it in a liquid or a gas whose molecules are small enough to fill its microscopic pores. While trying to measure the density of coal using several gases (helium, methanol, hexane, benzene), and as she found different values depending on the gas used, Rosalind Franklin showed that the pores of coal are made of microstructures of various lengths that act as a microscopic sieve to discriminate the gases. She also discovered that the size of these structures depends on the temperature of carbonation during the coal production. With this research, she obtained a PhD degree and left the BCURA in 1946. ^[4]

In the mid fifties, Simon Broadbent worked in the BCURA as a statistician. Among other interests, he studied the use of coal in gas masks. One question is to understand how a fluid can diffuse in the coal pores, modeled as a random maze of open or closed tunnels. In 1954, during a symposium on Monte Carlo methods, he asks questions to John Hammersley on the use of numerical methods to analyze this model. ^[5]

Broadbent and Hammersley introduced in their article of 1957 a mathematical model to model this phenomenon, that is percolation.

Computation of the critical parameter

For most infinite lattice graphs, $p c$ cannot be calculated exactly, though in some cases $p c$ there is an exact value. For example:

for the square lattice $ℤ 2$ in two dimensions, $p c = 1 / 2$ for bond percolation, a fact which was an open question for more than 20 years and was finally resolved by Harry Kesten in the early 1980s,^[6] see (Kesten 1982). For site percolation on the square lattice, the value of $p c$ is not known from analytic derivation but only via simulations of large lattices which provide the estimate $p c =$ 0.59274621 ± 0.00000013.^[7]
A limit case for lattices in high dimensions is given by the Bethe lattice, whose threshold is at $p c = 1 / z - 1$ for a coordination number $z$ . In other words: for the regular tree of degree [math]\displaystyle{ z }[/math], [math]\displaystyle{ p_c }[/math] is equal to [math]\displaystyle{ 1/(z-1) }[/math].

For a random tree-like network without degree-degree correlation, it can be shown that such network can have a giant component, and the percolation threshold (transmission probability) is given by [math]\displaystyle{ p_c = \frac{1}{g_1'(1)} }[/math], where [math]\displaystyle{ g_1(z) }[/math] is the generating function corresponding to the excess degree distribution. So, for random Erdős–Rényi networks of average degree [math]\displaystyle{ \langle k\rangle }[/math], $p c = 1 / ⟨k⟩$ .^[8]^[9]^[10]
In networks with low clustering, [math]\displaystyle{ 0 \lt C \ll 1 }[/math], the critical point gets scaled by [math]\displaystyle{ (1-C)^{-1} }[/math] such that:

[math]\displaystyle{ p_c = \frac{1}{1-C}\frac{1}{g_1'(1)}. }[/math]^[11]

This indicates that for a given degree distribution, the clustering leads to a larger percolation threshold, mainly because for a fixed number of links, the clustering structure reinforces the core of the network with the price of diluting the global connections. For networks with high clustering, strong clustering could induce the core–periphery structure, in which the core and periphery might percolate at different critical points, and the above approximate treatment is not applicable.^[12]

Universality

The universality principle states that the numerical value of $p c$ is determined by the local structure of the graph, whereas the behavior near the critical threshold, $p c$ , is characterized by universal critical exponents. For example the distribution of the size of clusters at criticality decays as a power law with the same exponent for all 2d lattices. This universality means that for a given dimension, the various critical exponents, the fractal dimension of the clusters at $p c$ is independent of the lattice type and percolation type (e.g., bond or site). However, recently percolation has been performed on a weighted planar stochastic lattice (WPSL) and found that although the dimension of the WPSL coincides with the dimension of the space where it is embedded, its universality class is different from that of all the known planar lattices.^[13]^[14]

Phases

Subcritical and supercritical

The main fact in the subcritical phase is "exponential decay". That is, when $p < p c$ , the probability that a specific point (for example, the origin) is contained in an open cluster (meaning a maximal connected set of "open" edges of the graph) of size $r$ decays to zero exponentially in $r$ . This was proved for percolation in three and more dimensions by (Menshikov 1986) and independently by (Aizenman Barsky). In two dimensions, it formed part of Kesten's proof that $p c = 1 / 2$ .^[15]

The dual graph of the square lattice $ℤ 2$ is also the square lattice. It follows that, in two dimensions, the supercritical phase is dual to a subcritical percolation process. This provides essentially full information about the supercritical model with $d = 2$ . The main result for the supercritical phase in three and more dimensions is that, for sufficiently large $N$ , there is^{[clarification needed]} an infinite open cluster in the two-dimensional slab $ℤ 2 \times [0, N] d - 2$ . This was proved by (Grimmett Marstrand).^[16]

In two dimensions with $p < 1 / 2$ , there is with probability one a unique infinite closed cluster (a closed cluster is a maximal connected set of "closed" edges of the graph). Thus the subcritical phase may be described as finite open islands in an infinite closed ocean. When $p > 1 / 2$ just the opposite occurs, with finite closed islands in an infinite open ocean. The picture is more complicated when $d \geq 3$ since $p c < 1 / 2$ , and there is coexistence of infinite open and closed clusters for $p$ between $p c$ and $1 - p c$ .

Criticality

Zoom in a critical percolation cluster (Click to animate)

Percolation has a singularity at the critical point $p = p c$ and many properties behave as of a power-law with [math]\displaystyle{ p-p_c }[/math], near [math]\displaystyle{ p_c }[/math]. Scaling theory predicts the existence of critical exponents, depending on the number d of dimensions, that determine the class of the singularity. When $d = 2$ these predictions are backed up by arguments from conformal field theory and Schramm–Loewner evolution, and include predicted numerical values for the exponents. Most of these predictions are conjectural except when the number $d$ of dimensions satisfies either $d = 2$ or $d \geq 6$ . They include:

There are no infinite clusters (open or closed)
The probability that there is an open path from some fixed point (say the origin) to a distance of r decreases polynomially, i.e. is on the order of r^α for some α
- $α$ does not depend on the particular lattice chosen, or on other local parameters. It depends only on the dimension $d$ (this is an instance of the universality principle).
- $α d$ decreases from $d = 2$ until $d = 6$ and then stays fixed.
- $α 2 = - 5 / 48$
- $α 6 = -1$ .
The shape of a large cluster in two dimensions is conformally invariant.

See (Grimmett 1999).^[17] In 11 or more dimensions, these facts are largely proved using a technique known as the lace expansion. It is believed that a version of the lace expansion should be valid for 7 or more dimensions, perhaps with implications also for the threshold case of 6 dimensions. The connection of percolation to the lace expansion is found in (Hara Slade).^[18]

In two dimensions, the first fact ("no percolation in the critical phase") is proved for many lattices, using duality. Substantial progress has been made on two-dimensional percolation through the conjecture of Oded Schramm that the scaling limit of a large cluster may be described in terms of a Schramm–Loewner evolution. This conjecture was proved by (Smirnov 2001)^[19] in the special case of site percolation on the triangular lattice.

Different models

Directed percolation that models the effect of gravitational forces acting on the liquid was also introduced in (Broadbent Hammersley),^[1] and has connections with the contact process.
The first model studied was Bernoulli percolation. In this model all bonds are independent. This model is called bond percolation by physicists.
A generalization was next introduced as the Fortuin–Kasteleyn random cluster model, which has many connections with the Ising model and other Potts models.
Bernoulli (bond) percolation on complete graphs is an example of a random graph. The critical probability is $p = 1 / N$ , where $N$ is the number of vertices (sites) of the graph.
Bootstrap percolation removes active cells from clusters when they have too few active neighbors, and looks at the connectivity of the remaining cells.^[20]
First passage percolation.
Invasion percolation.

Applications

In biology, biochemistry, and physical virology

Percolation theory has been used to successfully predict the fragmentation of biological virus shells (capsids),^[21]^[22] with the fragmentation threshold of Hepatitis B virus capsid predicted and detected experimentally.^[23] When a critical number of subunits has been randomly removed from the nanoscopic shell, it fragments and this fragmentation may be detected using Charge Detection Mass Spectroscopy (CDMS) among other single-particle techniques. This is a molecular analog to the common board game Jenga, and has relevance to the broader study of virus disassembly. Interestingly, more stable viral particles (tilings with greater fragmentation thresholds) are found in greater abundance in nature.^[21]

In ecology

Percolation theory has been applied to studies of how environment fragmentation impacts animal habitats^[24] and models of how the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis spreads.^[25]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Broadbent, Simon; Hammersley, John (1957). "Percolation processes I. Crystals and mazes". Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 53 (3): 629–641. doi:10.1017/S0305004100032680. ISSN 0305-0041. Bibcode: 1957PCPS...53..629B.
↑ Sahini, M.; Sahimi, M. (2003-07-13) (in en). Applications Of Percolation Theory. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-203-22153-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=Mw_csu3AcB0C&q=Flory%E2%80%93Stockmayer+theory+percolation+theory&pg=PA8. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
↑ van Krevelen, Dirk W (1982). "Development of coal research—a review.". Fuel 61 (9): 786–790. doi:10.1016/0016-2361(82)90304-0.
↑ The rosalind franklin papers - the holes in coal: Research at BCURA and in Paris, 1942-1951. https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/spotlight/kr/feature/coal . Accessed: 2022-01-17.
↑ Hammersley, JM; Welsh, DJA (1980). "Percolation theory and its ramifications.". Contemporary Physics 21 (6): 593–605. doi:10.1080/00107518008210661. Bibcode: 1980ConPh..21..593H.
↑ Bollobás, Béla; Riordan, Oliver (2006). "Sharp thresholds and percolation in the plane". Random Structures and Algorithms 29 (4): 524–548. doi:10.1002/rsa.20134. ISSN 1042-9832.
↑ MEJ Newman; RM Ziff (2000). "Efficient Monte Carlo algorithm and high-precision results for percolation". Physical Review Letters 85 (19): 4104–4107. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.85.4104. PMID 11056635. Bibcode: 2000PhRvL..85.4104N.
↑ Erdős, P.; Rényi, A. (1959). "On random graphs I.". Publ. Math. (6): 290–297.
↑ Erdős, P.; Rényi, A. (1960). "The evolution of random graphs". Publ. Math. Inst. Hung. Acad. Sci. (5): 17–61.
↑ Bolloba's, B. (1985). "Random Graphs". Academic.
↑ Berchenko, Yakir; Artzy-Randrup, Yael; Teicher, Mina; Stone, Lewi (2009-03-30). "Emergence and Size of the Giant Component in Clustered Random Graphs with a Given Degree Distribution" (in en). Physical Review Letters 102 (13): 138701. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.138701. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 19392410. Bibcode: 2009PhRvL.102m8701B. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.138701. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
↑ Li, Ming; Liu, Run-Ran; Lü, Linyuan; Hu, Mao-Bin; Xu, Shuqi; Zhang, Yi-Cheng (2021-04-25). "Percolation on complex networks: Theory and application" (in en). Physics Reports. Percolation on complex networks: Theory and application 907: 1–68. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2020.12.003. ISSN 0370-1573. Bibcode: 2021PhR...907....1L. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370157320304269.
↑ Hassan, M. K.; Rahman, M. M. (2015). "Percolation on a multifractal scale-free planar stochastic lattice and its universality class". Phys. Rev. E 92 (4): 040101. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.92.040101. PMID 26565145. Bibcode: 2015PhRvE..92d0101H.
↑ Hassan, M. K.; Rahman, M. M. (2016). "Universality class of site and bond percolation on multi-multifractal scale-free planar stochastic lattice". Phys. Rev. E 94 (4): 042109. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.94.042109. PMID 27841467. Bibcode: 2016PhRvE..94d2109H.
↑ Kesten, Harry (1982). Percolation Theory for Mathematicians. Birkhauser. doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-2730-9. ISBN 978-0-8176-3107-9.
↑ Grimmett, Geoffrey; Marstrand, John (1990). "The Supercritical Phase of Percolation is Well Behaved". Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 430 (1879): 439–457. doi:10.1098/rspa.1990.0100. ISSN 1364-5021. Bibcode: 1990RSPSA.430..439G.
↑ Grimmett, Geoffrey (1999). Percolation. Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften. 321. Berlin: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-03981-6. ISBN 978-3-642-08442-3. http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~grg/papers/perc/perc.html. Retrieved 2009-04-18.
↑ Hara, Takashi; Slade, Gordon (1990). "Mean-field critical behaviour for percolation in high dimensions". Communications in Mathematical Physics 128 (2): 333–391. doi:10.1007/BF02108785. ISSN 0010-3616. Bibcode: 1990CMaPh.128..333H. http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.cmp/1104180434. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
↑ Smirnov, Stanislav (2001). "Critical percolation in the plane: conformal invariance, Cardy's formula, scaling limits". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences. I 333 (3): 239–244. doi:10.1016/S0764-4442(01)01991-7. ISSN 0764-4442. Bibcode: 2001CRASM.333..239S.
↑ "Bootstrap percolation", Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications 171 (3): 453–470, 1991, doi:10.1016/0378-4371(91)90295-n, Bibcode: 1991PhyA..171..453A .
↑ ^21.0 ^21.1 Brunk, Nicholas E.; Twarock, Reidun (2021). "Percolation Theory Reveals Biophysical Properties of Virus-like Particles". ACS Nano (American Chemical Society (ACS)) 15 (8): 12988–12995. doi:10.1021/acsnano.1c01882. ISSN 1936-0851. PMID 34296852.
↑ Brunk, N. E.; Lee, L. S.; Glazier, J. A.; Butske, W.; Zlotnick, A. (2018). "Molecular Jenga: the percolation phase transition (collapse) in virus capsids". Physical Biology 15 (5): 056005. doi:10.1088/1478-3975/aac194. PMID 29714713. Bibcode: 2018PhBio..15e6005B.
↑ Lee, L. S.; Brunk, N.; Haywood, D. G.; Keifer, D.; Pierson, E.; Kondylis, P.; Zlotnick, A. (2017). "A molecular breadboard: Removal and replacement of subunits in a hepatitis B virus capsid". Protein Science 26 (11): 2170–2180. doi:10.1002/pro.3265. PMID 28795465.
↑ Boswell, G. P.; Britton, N. F.; Franks, N. R. (1998-10-22). "Habitat fragmentation, percolation theory and the conservation of a keystone species" (in en). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 265 (1409): 1921–1925. doi:10.1098/rspb.1998.0521. ISSN 0962-8452.
↑ Davis, S.; Trapman, P.; Leirs, H.; Begon, M.; Heesterbeek, J. a. P. (2008-07-31). "The abundance threshold for plague as a critical percolation phenomenon". Nature 454 (7204): 634–637. doi:10.1038/nature07053. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 18668107. Bibcode: 2008Natur.454..634D.

Aizenman, Michael; Barsky, David (1987), "Sharpness of the phase transition in percolation models", Communications in Mathematical Physics 108 (3): 489–526, doi:10.1007/BF01212322, Bibcode: 1987CMaPh.108..489A, http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.cmp/1104116538
Menshikov, Mikhail (1986), "Coincidence of critical points in percolation problems", Soviet Mathematics - Doklady 33: 856–859

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[BroadbentHammersley1957-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Broadbent, Simon; Hammersley, John (1957). "Percolation processes I. Crystals and mazes". Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 53 (3): 629–641. doi:10.1017/S0305004100032680. ISSN 0305-0041. Bibcode: 1957PCPS...53..629B.

[2] Sahini, M.; Sahimi, M. (2003-07-13) (in en). Applications Of Percolation Theory. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-203-22153-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=Mw_csu3AcB0C&q=Flory%E2%80%93Stockmayer+theory+percolation+theory&pg=PA8. Retrieved 2020-10-27.

[3] van Krevelen, Dirk W (1982). "Development of coal research—a review.". Fuel 61 (9): 786–790. doi:10.1016/0016-2361(82)90304-0.

[4] The rosalind franklin papers - the holes in coal: Research at BCURA and in Paris, 1942-1951. https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/spotlight/kr/feature/coal . Accessed: 2022-01-17.

[5] Hammersley, JM; Welsh, DJA (1980). "Percolation theory and its ramifications.". Contemporary Physics 21 (6): 593–605. doi:10.1080/00107518008210661. Bibcode: 1980ConPh..21..593H.

[BollobásRiordan2006-6] Bollobás, Béla; Riordan, Oliver (2006). "Sharp thresholds and percolation in the plane". Random Structures and Algorithms 29 (4): 524–548. doi:10.1002/rsa.20134. ISSN 1042-9832.

[7] MEJ Newman; RM Ziff (2000). "Efficient Monte Carlo algorithm and high-precision results for percolation". Physical Review Letters 85 (19): 4104–4107. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.85.4104. PMID 11056635. Bibcode: 2000PhRvL..85.4104N.

[8] Erdős, P.; Rényi, A. (1959). "On random graphs I.". Publ. Math. (6): 290–297.

[9] Erdős, P.; Rényi, A. (1960). "The evolution of random graphs". Publ. Math. Inst. Hung. Acad. Sci. (5): 17–61.

[10] Bolloba's, B. (1985). "Random Graphs". Academic.

[11] Berchenko, Yakir; Artzy-Randrup, Yael; Teicher, Mina; Stone, Lewi (2009-03-30). "Emergence and Size of the Giant Component in Clustered Random Graphs with a Given Degree Distribution" (in en). Physical Review Letters 102 (13): 138701. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.138701. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 19392410. Bibcode: 2009PhRvL.102m8701B. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.138701. Retrieved 2022-02-24.

[12] Li, Ming; Liu, Run-Ran; Lü, Linyuan; Hu, Mao-Bin; Xu, Shuqi; Zhang, Yi-Cheng (2021-04-25). "Percolation on complex networks: Theory and application" (in en). Physics Reports. Percolation on complex networks: Theory and application 907: 1–68. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2020.12.003. ISSN 0370-1573. Bibcode: 2021PhR...907....1L. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370157320304269.

[13] Hassan, M. K.; Rahman, M. M. (2015). "Percolation on a multifractal scale-free planar stochastic lattice and its universality class". Phys. Rev. E 92 (4): 040101. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.92.040101. PMID 26565145. Bibcode: 2015PhRvE..92d0101H.

[14] Hassan, M. K.; Rahman, M. M. (2016). "Universality class of site and bond percolation on multi-multifractal scale-free planar stochastic lattice". Phys. Rev. E 94 (4): 042109. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.94.042109. PMID 27841467. Bibcode: 2016PhRvE..94d2109H.

[Kesten1982-15] Kesten, Harry (1982). Percolation Theory for Mathematicians. Birkhauser. doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-2730-9. ISBN 978-0-8176-3107-9.

[GrimmettMarstrand1990-16] Grimmett, Geoffrey; Marstrand, John (1990). "The Supercritical Phase of Percolation is Well Behaved". Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 430 (1879): 439–457. doi:10.1098/rspa.1990.0100. ISSN 1364-5021. Bibcode: 1990RSPSA.430..439G.

[Grimmett1999-17] Grimmett, Geoffrey (1999). Percolation. Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften. 321. Berlin: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-03981-6. ISBN 978-3-642-08442-3. http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~grg/papers/perc/perc.html. Retrieved 2009-04-18.

[HaraSlade1990-18] Hara, Takashi; Slade, Gordon (1990). "Mean-field critical behaviour for percolation in high dimensions". Communications in Mathematical Physics 128 (2): 333–391. doi:10.1007/BF02108785. ISSN 0010-3616. Bibcode: 1990CMaPh.128..333H. http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.cmp/1104180434. Retrieved 2022-10-30.

[Smirnov2001-19] Smirnov, Stanislav (2001). "Critical percolation in the plane: conformal invariance, Cardy's formula, scaling limits". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences. I 333 (3): 239–244. doi:10.1016/S0764-4442(01)01991-7. ISSN 0764-4442. Bibcode: 2001CRASM.333..239S.

[20] "Bootstrap percolation", Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications 171 (3): 453–470, 1991, doi:10.1016/0378-4371(91)90295-n, Bibcode: 1991PhyA..171..453A .

[Brunk_Twarock_p.-21] 21.0 ^21.1 Brunk, Nicholas E.; Twarock, Reidun (2021). "Percolation Theory Reveals Biophysical Properties of Virus-like Particles". ACS Nano (American Chemical Society (ACS)) 15 (8): 12988–12995. doi:10.1021/acsnano.1c01882. ISSN 1936-0851. PMID 34296852.

[22] Brunk, N. E.; Lee, L. S.; Glazier, J. A.; Butske, W.; Zlotnick, A. (2018). "Molecular Jenga: the percolation phase transition (collapse) in virus capsids". Physical Biology 15 (5): 056005. doi:10.1088/1478-3975/aac194. PMID 29714713. Bibcode: 2018PhBio..15e6005B.

[23] Lee, L. S.; Brunk, N.; Haywood, D. G.; Keifer, D.; Pierson, E.; Kondylis, P.; Zlotnick, A. (2017). "A molecular breadboard: Removal and replacement of subunits in a hepatitis B virus capsid". Protein Science 26 (11): 2170–2180. doi:10.1002/pro.3265. PMID 28795465.

[24] Boswell, G. P.; Britton, N. F.; Franks, N. R. (1998-10-22). "Habitat fragmentation, percolation theory and the conservation of a keystone species" (in en). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 265 (1409): 1921–1925. doi:10.1098/rspb.1998.0521. ISSN 0962-8452.

[25] Davis, S.; Trapman, P.; Leirs, H.; Begon, M.; Heesterbeek, J. a. P. (2008-07-31). "The abundance threshold for plague as a critical percolation phenomenon". Nature 454 (7204): 634–637. doi:10.1038/nature07053. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 18668107. Bibcode: 2008Natur.454..634D.

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Both	Branching process Galves–Löcherbach model Gaussian process Hidden Markov model (HMM) Markov process Martingale Differences Local Sub- Super- Random dynamical system Regenerative process Renewal process Stochastic chains with memory of variable length White noise
Fields and other	Dirichlet process Gaussian random field Gibbs measure Hopfield model Ising model Potts model Boolean network Markov random field Percolation Pitman–Yor process Point process Cox Poisson Random field Random graph
Time series models	Autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH) model Autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model Autoregressive (AR) model Autoregressive–moving-average (ARMA) model Generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) model Moving-average (MA) model
Financial models	Black–Derman–Toy Black–Karasinski Black–Scholes Chen Constant elasticity of variance (CEV) Cox–Ingersoll–Ross (CIR) Garman–Kohlhagen Heath–Jarrow–Morton (HJM) Heston Ho–Lee Hull–White LIBOR market Rendleman–Bartter SABR volatility Vašíček Wilkie
Actuarial models	Bühlmann Cramér–Lundberg Risk process Sparre–Anderson
Queueing models	Bulk Fluid Generalized queueing network M/G/1 M/M/1 M/M/c
Properties	Càdlàg paths Continuous Continuous paths Ergodic Exchangeable Feller-continuous Gauss–Markov Markov Mixing Piecewise deterministic Predictable Progressively measurable Self-similar Stationary Time-reversible
Limit theorems	Central limit theorem Donsker's theorem Doob's martingale convergence theorems Ergodic theorem Fisher–Tippett–Gnedenko theorem Large deviation principle Law of large numbers (weak/strong) Law of the iterated logarithm Maximal ergodic theorem Sanov's theorem
Inequalities	Burkholder–Davis–Gundy Doob's martingale Kunita–Watanabe
Tools	Cameron–Martin formula Convergence of random variables Doléans-Dade exponential Doob decomposition theorem Doob–Meyer decomposition theorem Doob's optional stopping theorem Dynkin's formula Feynman–Kac formula Filtration Girsanov theorem Infinitesimal generator Itô integral Itô's lemma Karhunen–Loève_theorem Kolmogorov continuity theorem Kolmogorov extension theorem Lévy–Prokhorov metric Malliavin calculus Martingale representation theorem Optional stopping theorem Prokhorov's theorem Quadratic variation Reflection principle Skorokhod integral Skorokhod's representation theorem Skorokhod space Snell envelope Stochastic differential equation Tanaka Stopping time Stratonovich integral Uniform integrability Usual hypotheses Wiener space Classical Abstract
Disciplines	Actuarial mathematics Econometrics Ergodic theory Extreme value theory (EVT) Large deviations theory Mathematical finance Mathematical statistics Probability theory Queueing theory Renewal theory Ruin theory Statistics System on Chip design Stochastic analysis Time series analysis Machine learning
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