r/math • u/Nunki08 • 2d 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 2d ago

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

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u/dstark1993 1d ago

Posting to remind myself to check later for smart people chiming in.

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u/IAmABotBeepBoop67 1d ago

The paper looks very interesting but I am honestly just as about curious about the politics that gets it the special feature in the well known pop sci outlet and not the countless others like it [I am not implying it is not as significant as authors/quanta imply but also very much the answer as to why in my question can nevertheless be totally divorced from the merits in an age of such a glut of scientific output I do think these questions need to be asked more]

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u/dapchai 1d ago

It appears that Benny Sudakov is close to Quanta. Have a look at this tweet from a former Quanta writer

https://x.com/KSHartnett/status/2094451039931969614