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Comparison of percolation probabilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Ludger Rüschendorf*
Affiliation:
University of Freiburg
*
Postal address: Institut für Mathematische Stochastik der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, D-7800 Freiburg im Breisgau, Hebelstrasse 27, W. Germany.

Abstract

Some recent results of Oxley and Welsh (1979) and McDiarmid (1981) concerning Bernoulli percolation on clutters are generalized. Our results allow to consider quantitative aspects of percolation on graphs and clutters.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1982 

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