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Critical points for spread-out self-avoiding walk, percolation and the contact process above the upper critical dimensions

Probability 2007-05-23 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider self-avoiding walk and percolation in \Zd\Zd, oriented percolation in \Zd×\Zp\Zd\times\Zp, and the contact process in \Zd\Zd, with pD()p D(\cdot) being the coupling function whose range is denoted by L<L<\infty. For percolation, for example, each bond {x,y}\{x,y\} is occupied with probability pD(yx)p D(y-x). The above models are known to exhibit a phase transition when the parameter pp varies around a model-dependent critical point \pc\pc. We investigate the value of \pc\pc when d>6d>6 for percolation and d>4d>4 for the other models, and L1L\gg1. We prove in a unified way that \pc=1+C(D)+O(L2d)\pc=1+C(D)+O(L^{-2d}), where the universal term 1 is the mean-field critical value, and the model-dependent term C(D)=O(Ld)C(D)=O(L^{-d}) is written explicitly in terms of the function DD. Our proof is based on the lace expansion for each of these models.

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@article{arxiv.math/0402050,
  title  = {Critical points for spread-out self-avoiding walk, percolation and the contact process above the upper critical dimensions},
  author = {Remco van der Hofstad and Akira Sakai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0402050},
  year   = {2007}
}

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