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Gilbert's disc model conditioned on the square lattice

Probability 2026-07-15 v1 Discrete Mathematics Combinatorics

Abstract

We present a new percolation model on the two-dimensional lattice, which can be seen as a conditioned version of continuous percolation on the plane. Let us place a point uniformly at random in each cell of the grid Z2\mathbb{Z}^2. These points correspond to the vertices of our graph, and we connect two points by an edge if their distance is less than a fixed radius RR. We are interested in the radius from which there exists almost surely an infinite connected component. We also study two other critical radii specific to the geometry of our model: the smallest radius such that there exists a positioning of the points for which there is an infinite connected component, and the radius from which all points are connected to each other.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.14062,
  title  = {Gilbert's disc model conditioned on the square lattice},
  author = {Jérôme Casse and Irène Marcovici and Maxence Poutrel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.14062},
  year   = {2026}
}