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Consider a cellular automaton with state space {0,1} ℤ2 where the initial configuration ω_0 is chosen according to a Bernoulli product measure, 1’s are stable, and 0’s become 1’s if they are surrounded by at least three neighboring 1’s. In this paper we show that the configuration ω_n at time n converges exponentially fast to a final configuration \(\bar\omega\), and that the limiting measure corresponding to \(\bar\omega\) is in the universality class of Bernoulli (independent) percolation. More precisely, assuming the existence of the critical exponents β, η, ν and γ, and of the continuum scaling limit of crossing probabilities for independent site percolation on the close-packed version of ℤ2 (i.e. for independent *-percolation on ℤ), we prove that the bootstrapped percolation model has the same scaling limit and critical exponents.This type of bootstrap percolation can be seen as a paradigm for a class of cellular automata whose evolution is given, at each time step, by a monotonic and nonessential enhancement [Aizenman and Grimmett, J. Stat. Phys. 63: 817--835 (1991); Grimmett, Percolation, 2nd Ed. (Springer, Berlin, 1999)
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Camia, F. Scaling Limit and Critical Exponents for Two-Dimensional Bootstrap Percolation. J Stat Phys 118, 85–101 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-004-8778-4
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