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Indistinguishability of Trees in Uniform Spanning Forests

Probability 2018-05-01 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We prove that in both the free and the wired uniform spanning forest (FUSF and WUSF) of any unimodular random rooted network (in particular, of any Cayley graph), it is impossible to distinguish the connected components of the forest from each other by invariantly defined graph properties almost surely. This confirms a conjecture of Benjamini, Lyons, Peres and Schramm. We use this to answer positively two additional questions of Benjamini, Lyons, Peres and Schramm under the assumption of unimodularity. We prove that on any unimodular random rooted network, the FUSF is either connected or has infinitely many connected components almost surely, and, if the FUSF and WUSF are distinct, then every component of the FUSF is transient and infinitely-ended almost surely. All of these results are new even for Cayley graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1506.00556,
  title  = {Indistinguishability of Trees in Uniform Spanning Forests},
  author = {Tom Hutchcroft and Asaf Nachmias},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.00556},
  year   = {2018}
}

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43 pages, 2 figures. Version 2: minor corrections and improvements; references added; one additional figure