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Super-Brownian limits and the $k$-point function for high-dimensional percolation

Probability 2026-07-24 v1 Mathematical Physics

Abstract

We prove that there exist positive constants AA and VV such that the high-dimensional critical percolation kk-point function is given by Tpc(x1,x2,,xk)Vk2A2k3TTr(k)Φ:V(T)ZdΦ(i)=xi1iku,vV(T)uvG(Φ(u),Φ(v)) T_{p_c}(x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_{k}) \sim V^{k-2} A^{2k-3} \sum_{T\in \mathsf{Tr}(k)} \sum_{\substack{\Phi:V(T)\to \mathbb{Z}^d \\ \Phi(i)=x_i \forall 1\leq i \leq k}} \prod_{\substack{u,v\in V(T)\\u\sim v}}G(\Phi(u),\Phi(v)) as minijxixj\min_{i\neq j}\|x_i-x_j\|\to \infty, where Tr(k)\mathsf{Tr}(k) is a set of isomorphism class representatives of trees with kk labelled leaves {1,,k}\{1,\ldots,k\} and unlabelled internal vertices all of which have degree 33 and GG is the lattice Green's function. This verifies a conjecture of Aizenman and Newman (1984) subject to the usual perturbative conditions needed for convergence of the lace expansion. It follows from this theorem that the law of the cluster of the origin, considered as the counting measure on its range, converges under rescaling to the canonical measure of the integrated super-Brownian excursion. By computing the asymptotics of various more complicated variations on the kk-point function, we also prove the stronger result that the cluster converges as an embedded metric-measure space to the continuum random tree equipped with its Brownian embedding into Rd\mathbb{R}^d. This convergence holds simultaneously with respect to the chemical distance, pivotal distance, and resistance distance on the cluster, which we prove are asymptotic to constant multiples of each other. This resolves conjectures of Hara and Slade (1998) and van der Hofstad and Slade (2003). As a corollary of our results we prove that there exists a positive constant CC such that Ppc(0Zd[r,r]d)Cr2\mathbb{P}_{p_c}(0\leftrightarrow \mathbb{Z}^d \setminus [-r,r]^d)\sim C r^{-2}, answering a question of Heydenreich and van der Hofstad (2017).

Cite

@article{arxiv.2607.22387,
  title  = {Super-Brownian limits and the $k$-point function for high-dimensional percolation},
  author = {Arthur Blanc-Renaudie and Tom Hutchcroft},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.22387},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

86 pages. Abstract shortened to meet arXiv requirements