Percolation Processes and Related Topics

Abstract

This paper is a general review of the current state of the theory of percolation processes and related topics. Besides presenting definitions and listing some of the principal available results and unsolved problems we have attempted to indicate a wide variety of examples drawn from physics, chemistry, biology, engineering and communication theory of problems which can profitably be considered special instances of a percolation process. The references, while not complete, should be sufficiently broad for the needs of most readers.