Indistinguishability of percolation clusters

Citation
R. Lyons et O. Schramm, Indistinguishability of percolation clusters, ANN PROBAB, 27(4), 1999, pp. 1809-1836
Citations number
36
Categorie Soggetti
Mathematics
Journal title
ANNALS OF PROBABILITY
ISSN journal
00911798 → ACNP
Volume
27
Issue
4
Year of publication
1999
Pages
1809 - 1836
Database
ISI
SICI code
0091-1798(199910)27:4<1809:IOPC>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
We show that when percolation produces infinitely many infinite dusters on a Cayley graph, one cannot distinguish the clusters from each other by any invariantly defined property. This implies that uniqueness of the infinite cluster is equivalent to nondecay of connectivity (a.k.a. long-range order) . We then derive applications concerning uniqueness in Kazhdan groups and i n wreath products and inequalities for p(u).