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Existence of an unbounded vacant set for subcritical continuum percolation

Probability 2017-06-28 v2

Abstract

We consider the Poisson Boolean percolation model in R2\mathbb{R}^2, where the radii of each ball is independently chosen according to some probability measure with finite second moment. For this model, we show that the two thresholds, for the existence of an unbounded occupied and an unbounded vacant component, coincide. This complements a recent study of the sharpness of the phase transition in Poisson Boolean percolation by the same authors. As a corollary it follows that for Poisson Boolean percolation in Rd\mathbb{R}^d, for any d2d\ge2, finite moment of order dd is both necessary and sufficient for the existence of a nontrivial phase transition for the vacant set.

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@article{arxiv.1706.03053,
  title  = {Existence of an unbounded vacant set for subcritical continuum percolation},
  author = {Daniel Ahlberg and Vincent Tassion and Augusto Teixeira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.03053},
  year   = {2017}
}

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9 pages