The Threshold Voter Automaton at a Critical Point
Steif, Jeffrey E.
Ann. Probab., Tome 22 (1994) no. 4, p. 1121-1139 / Harvested from Project Euclid
We consider the threshold voter automaton in one dimension with threshold $\tau > n/2$, where $n$ is the number of neighbors and where we start from a product measure with density $\frac{1}{2}$. It has recently been shown that there is a critical value $\theta_c \approx 0.6469076$, so that if $\tau = \theta n$ with $\theta > \theta_c$ and $n$ is large, then most sites never flip, while for $\theta \in (\frac{1}{2}, \theta_c)$ and $n$ large, there is a limiting state consisting mostly of large regions of points of the same type. Using a supercritical branching process, we show that the behavior at $\theta_c$ differs from both the $\theta > \theta_c$ regime and the $\theta < \theta_c$ regime and that, in some sense, there is a discontinuity both from the left and from the right at this critical value.
Publié le : 1994-07-14
Classification:  Cellular automata,  critical value,  Chen-Stein method,  branching processes,  60K35,  60J80,  60F10
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Steif, Jeffrey E. The Threshold Voter Automaton at a Critical Point. Ann. Probab., Tome 22 (1994) no. 4, pp.  1121-1139. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1176988597/