Critical Percolation and the Minimal Spanning Tree in Slabs

DOI10.1002/CPA.21714zbMATH Open1380.82025arXiv1512.09107OpenAlexW2962868918MaRDI QIDQ4588304FDOQ4588304

Charles M. Newman, Wei Wu, Vincent Tassion

Publication date: 2 November 2017

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The minimal spanning forest on $mathbb{Z}^d$ is known to consist of a single tree for $dleq2$ and is conjectured to consist of infinitely many trees for large $d$. In this paper, we prove that there is a single tree for quasi-planar graphs such as $mathbb{Z}^{2}imes{0,ldots,k}^{d-2}$. Our method relies on generalizations of the "Gluing Lemma" of arXiv:1401.7130. A related result is that critical Bernoulli percolation on a slab satisfies the box-crossing property. Its proof is based on a new Russo-Seymour-Welsh type theorem for quasi-planar graphs. Thus, at criticality, the probability of an open path from $0$ of diameter $n$ decays polynomially in $n$. This strengthens the result of arXiv:1401.7130, where the absence of an infinite cluster at criticality was first established.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.09107

zbMATH Keywords

percolationminimal spanning treecritical Bernoulli percolation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Trees (05C05) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Percolation (82B43)

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• Emergent planarity in two-dimensional Ising models with finite-range interactions
• Geometry of the minimal spanning tree of a random 3-regular graph
• Crossing probabilities for planar percolation
• Crossing probabilities for critical Bernoulli percolation on slabs
• Quasi-independence for nodal lines
• The phase transitions of the random-cluster and Potts models on slabs with \(q \geq 1\) are sharp
• The scaling limits of the minimal spanning tree and invasion percolation in the plane
• Percolation of random nodal lines

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