Blinking parameter points.

For each value of σ in column 1, the number of bistable points in the 4 × 106 samples obtained by independent logarithmic random (ILR) sampling is shown in column 2 (see also Fig 3). Of these bistable points, the number of blinking points, or those which become monostable at some larger value of σ, is shown in column 3 (titled BP). The subsequent columns indicate, for each value of σ, the number of blinking points that lie outside the largest component in the corresponding initial connectivity graph (BPSC, column 4); the number of blinking points that never enter the largest component of the initial connectivity graph for larger values of σ (BPNL, column 5); and the number of blinking points that are monostable at σ = 500 (“asymptotically monostable”, BPAM, column 6). The numbers show that blinking points are found primarily on the boundary of the bistable region and become monostable for large values of σ, as discussed further in the text.