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Unstable Supercritical Discontinuous Percolation Transitions

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Percolation is a pervasive concept [1], which has applications in a wide variety of natural, technological and social systems [2–5], ranging from conductivity of composite materials [6, 7] and polymerization [8] to epidemic spreading [9–11] and information diffusion [12, 13].

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Chen, W. (2014). Unstable Supercritical Discontinuous Percolation Transitions. In: Explosive Percolation in Random Networks. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43739-1_5

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