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Bargmann-Fock percolation is noise sensitive

Probability 2020-09-11 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We show that planar Bargmann-Fock percolation is noise sensitive under the Ornstein-Ulhenbeck process. The proof is based on the randomized algorithm approach introduced by Schramm and Steif and gives quantitative polynomial bounds on the noise sensitivity of crossing events for Bargmann-Fock. A rather counter-intuitive consequence is as follows. Let FF be a Bargmann-Fock Gaussian field in R3\mathbb{R}^3 and consider two horizontal planes P1,P2P_1,P_2 at small distance ε\varepsilon from each other. Even though FF is a.s. analytic, the above noise sensitivity statement implies that the full restriction of FF to P1P_1 (i.e. FP1F_{| P_1}) gives almost no information on the percolation configuration induced by FP2F_{|P_2}. As an application of this noise sensitivity analysis, we provide a Schramm-Steif based proof that the near-critical window of level line percolation around c=0\ell_c=0 is polynomially small. This new approach extends earlier sharp threshold results to a larger family of planar Gaussian fields.

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@article{arxiv.1906.02666,
  title  = {Bargmann-Fock percolation is noise sensitive},
  author = {Christophe Garban and Hugo Vanneuville},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.02666},
  year   = {2020}
}

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22 pages, 1 figure, minor changes introduced and two short appendices added

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