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Power-law bounds for critical long-range percolation below the upper-critical dimension

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We study long-range Bernoulli percolation on Zd in which each two vertices x and y are connected by an edge with probability 1−exp⁡(−βxydα). It is a theorem of Noam Berger (CMP, 2002) that if 0<α<d then there is no infinite cluster at the critical parameter βc. We give a new, quantitative proof of this theorem establishing the power-law upper bound [ \mathbf{P}_{\beta_c}\bigl(|K|\geq n\bigr) \leq C n^{-(d-\alpha)/(2d+\alpha)} ] for every n≥1, where K is the cluster of the origin. We believe that this is the first rigorous power-law upper bound for a Bernoulli percolation model that is neither planar nor expected to exhibit mean-field critical behaviour. As part of the proof, we establish a universal inequality implying that the maximum size of a cluster in percolation on any finite graph is of the same order as its mean with high probability. We apply this inequality to derive a new rigorous hyperscaling inequality (2−η)(δ+1)≤d(δ−1) relating the cluster-volume exponent δ and two-point function exponent η.

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

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Probability Theory and Related Fields

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0178-8051
1432-2064

Volume Title

181

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Springer Science and Business Media LLC