r/math • u/Nunki08 • 22h ago

‘Stunning’ Percolation Proof Solves Decades-Old Puzzle About Phase Transitions | Quanta Magazine - Leila Sloman | Mathematicians found that a broad class of networks will abruptly shift behavior past a critical point

https://www.quantamagazine.org/stunning-percolation-proof-solves-decades-old-puzzle-about-phase-transitions-20260831/

The paper: Supercritical sharpness of percolation

Sahar Diskin, Philip Easo, Ritvik Ramanan Radhakrishnan, Benny Sudakov, Vincent Tassion

arXiv:2603.03257 [math.PR]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03257

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u/ReddishPanda69 15h ago

Met one of the authors in a summer school once. Happy to see that they're doing great!