Homemath.PRarXiv:2605.30299

On reversing the Simon-Lieb inequality in high-dimensional percolation

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Abstract

We study Bernoulli percolation on Zd\mathbb Z^d in dimensions d>6{d>6}. We prove that a classical consequence of the van den Berg-Kesten inequality, often referred to as the Simon-Lieb inequality in the context of the Ising model, admits a partial reversal. As a main application, we show that the quantity φpc(S)\varphi_{p_c}(S), introduced by Duminil-Copin and Tassion (Comm.\ Math.\ Phys., 2016), is uniformly bounded over all SZdS\subset \mathbb Z^d. This partial reversal further yields a short and self-contained route to several key results, including near-critical estimates on the two-point function and sharp bounds on the critical one-arm probability.

Comments: 35 pages, 6 figures

Cite

@article{arxiv.2605.30299,
  title  = {On reversing the Simon-Lieb inequality in high-dimensional percolation},
  author = {Romain Panis and Bruno Schapira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.30299},
  year   = {2026}
}