Percolation in half-spaces: Equality of critical densities and continuity of the percolation probability (Q803678)

Renormalization arguments are developed and applied to independent nearest-neighbor percolation on various subsets \({\mathbb{L}}\) of \({\mathbb{Z}}^ d\), \(d\geq 2\), yielding: \(\bullet\) Equality of the critical densities, \(p_ c({\mathbb{L}})\), for \({\mathbb{L}}\) a half-space, quarter-space, etc., and (for \(d>2)\) equality with the limit of slab critical densities. \(\bullet\) Continuity of the phase transition for the half-space, quarter- space, etc.; i.e., vanishing of the percolation probability, \(\theta_{{\mathbb{L}}}(p)\), at \(p=p_ c({\mathbb{L}}).\) Corollaries of these results include uniqueness of the infinite cluster for such \({\mathbb{L}}'s\) and sufficiency of the following for proving continuity of the full-space phase transition: showing that percolation in the full-space at density p implies percolation in the half-space at the same density.