NONUNIVERSALITY AND CONTINUITY OF THE CRITICAL COVERED VOLUME FRACTION IN CONTINUUM PERCOLATION

We establish, using mathematically rigorous methods, that the critical covered volume fraction (CVF) for a continuum percolation model with overlapping balls of random sizes is not a universal constant independ ent of the distribution of the size of the balls. In addition, we show that the critical CVF is a continuous function of the distribution of the radius random variable, in the sense that if a sequence of random variables converges weakly to some random variable, then the critical CVF based on these random variables converges to the critical CVF of the limiting random variable.