Transience of the vacant set for near-critical random interlacements in high dimensions

Abstract: The model of random interlacements is a one-parameter family

m a t h c a l I^{u},

u g e 0,

of random subsets of

m a t h b b Z^{d},

which locally describes the trace of simple random walk on a

d

-dimensional torus run up to time

u

times its volume. Its complement, the so-called vacant set

m a t h c a l V^{u}

, has been shown to undergo a non-trivial percolation phase-transition in

u;

i.e., there exists

u_{*} (d) i n (0, i n f t y)

such that for

u i n [0, u_{*} (d))

the vacant set

m a t h c a l V^{u}

contains a unique infinite connected component

m a t h c a l V_{i} n f t y^{u},

while for

u > u_{*} (d)

it consists of finite connected components. Sznitman cite{SZ11,SZ11B} showed that

u_{*} (d) s i m l o g d,

and in this article we show the existence of

u (d) > 0

with

f r a c u (d) u_{*} (d) o 1

as

d o i n f t y

such that

m a t h c a l V_{i} n f t y^{u}

is transient for all

u i n [0, u (d)) .

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