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The component graph of the uniform spanning forest: transitions in dimensions 9 , 10 , 11 , …

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Peres, Y 

Abstract

We prove that the uniform spanning forests of Zd and Z have qualitatively different connectivity properties whenever >d≥4. In particular, we consider the graph formed by contracting each tree of the uniform spanning forest down to a single vertex, which we call the component graph. We introduce the notion of ubiquitous subgraphs and show that the set of ubiquitous subgraphs of the component graph changes whenever the dimension changes and is above 8. To separate dimensions 5,6,7, and 8, we prove a similar result concerning ubiquitous subhypergraphs in the component hypergraph. Our result sharpens a theorem of Benjamini, Kesten, Peres, and Schramm, who proved that the diameter of the component graph increases by one every time the dimension increases by four.

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Keywords

math.PR, math.PR, math-ph, math.MP

Journal Title

Probability Theory and Related Fields

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Journal ISSN

0178-8051
1432-2064

Volume Title

175

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Sponsorship
Microsoft Research