Abstract
We argue that the elastic backbone (EB) (union of shortest paths) on a cylindrical system, studied by Sampaio Filho et al [2018 Phys. Rev. Lett. 120 175701], is in fact the backbone of two-dimensional directed percolation (DP). We simulate the EB on the same system as considered by these authors, and also study the DP backbone directly using an algorithm that allows backbones to be generated in a completely periodic manner. We find that both the EB in the bulk and the DP backbone have a fractal dimension of d b = d B,DP = 1.681 02(15) at the identical critical point p c,DP ≈ 0.705 485 22. We also measure the fractal dimension at the edge of the EB system and for the full DP clusters, and find d e = d DP = 1.840 54(4). We argue that those two fractal dimensions follow from the DP exponents as d B,DP = 2 − 2β/ν ∥ = 1.681 072(12) and d DP = 2 − β/ν ∥ = 1.840 536(6). Our fractal dimensions differ from the value 1.750(3) found by Sampaio Filho et al.
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