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Giant Component and Vacant Set for Random Walk on a Discrete Torus

Probability 2011-11-09 v2 Mathematical Physics Combinatorics math.MP

Abstract

We consider random walk on a discrete torus E of side-length N, in sufficiently high dimension d. We investigate the percolative properties of the vacant set corresponding to the collection of sites which have not been visited by the walk up to time uN^d. We show that when u is chosen small, as N tends to infinity, there is with overwhelming probability a unique connected component in the vacant set which contains segments of length const log N. Moreover, this connected component occupies a non-degenerate fraction of the total number of sites N^d of E, and any point of E lies within distance an arbitrary fractional power of N from this component.

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@article{arxiv.math/0610802,
  title  = {Giant Component and Vacant Set for Random Walk on a Discrete Torus},
  author = {Itai Benjamini and Alain-Sol Sznitman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0610802},
  year   = {2011}
}

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38 pages

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