Bond percolation on the square lattice: a union bound
Question
On the square lattice , every edge joining two vertices at Euclidean distance is independently open with probability . Bounding the probability with a union bound (sub-additivity) over paths starting at the origin, one finds that the origin lies in an infinite open cluster with probability for all in an interval . What is ?
Short answer
. If the origin is in an infinite cluster, some self-avoiding open path of length starts there for every . There are at most such paths (4 first steps, then no backtracking), each open with probability , so the probability is at most whenever .
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- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
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