Empires and percolation: regions merging at a constant rate
Decide whether planar regions merging with neighbours at a constant rate form an infinite region in finite time.
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| 4 | "probability" |
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| 8 | "key": "aldous", |
| 9 | "name": "David Aldous's open problems", |
| 10 | "url": "https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/Research/OP/empires.html", |
| 11 | "id": "empires", |
| 12 | "curator": "David Aldous", |
| 13 | "poser": "David Aldous", |
| 14 | "status": "open", |
| 15 | "as_of": "2026-10-20", |
| 16 | "catalog": "0521c19bbd38" |
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