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Percolation on self-dual polygon configurations

Probability 2012-06-27 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

Recently, Scullard and Ziff noticed that a broad class of planar percolation models are self-dual under a simple condition that, in a parametrized version of such a model, reduces to a single equation. They state that the solution of the resulting equation gives the critical point. However, just as in the classical case of bond percolation on the square lattice, self-duality is simply the starting point: the mathematical difficulty is precisely showing that self-duality implies criticality. Here we do so for a generalization of the models considered by Scullard and Ziff. In these models, the states of the bonds need not be independent; furthermore, increasing events need not be positively correlated, so new techniques are needed in the analysis. The main new ingredients are a generalization of Harris's Lemma to products of partially ordered sets, and a new proof of a type of Russo-Seymour-Welsh Lemma with minimal symmetry assumptions.

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@article{arxiv.1001.4674,
  title  = {Percolation on self-dual polygon configurations},
  author = {Bela Bollobas and Oliver Riordan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.4674},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

Expanded; 73 pages, 24 figures

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