How a complex network is connected crucially impacts its dynamics and function. Percolation, the transition to extensive connectedness on gradual addition of links, was long believed to be continuous, ...

The Annals of Applied Probability, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Feb., 1993), pp. 56-80 (25 pages) Consider first-passage percolation on Zd. A classical result says, roughly speaking, that the shortest travel time ...

The Annals of Applied Probability, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Feb., 1993), pp. 81-90 (10 pages) A variation is given of the van den Berg-Kesten inequality on the probability of disjoint occurrence of events ...

Bengaluru City police Commissioner B Dayananda on Friday launched the "One Billion Drops" campaign in five police campuses to strengthen the metropolis' climate resilience. As part of the "One Billion ...

As Tiruvannamalai continues to witness a steady rise in the day temperature, water stored in the percolation ponds and check dams in Jawadhu Hills in the district remains the major water source for ...