A lower bound on the critical parameter of interlacement percolation in high dimension

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Alain-Sol Sznitman1
1Departement Mathematik, ETH-Zentrum, Zürich, Switzerland

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We investigate the percolative properties of the vacant set left by random interlacements on $${\mathbb{Z}^d}$$ , when d is large. A non-negative parameter u controls the density of random interlacements on $${\mathbb{Z}^d}$$ . It is known from Sznitman (Ann Math, 2010), and Sidoravicius and Sznitman (Comm Pure Appl Math 62(6):831–858, 2009), that there is a non-degenerate critical value u *, such that the vacant set at level u percolates when u < u *, and does not percolate when u > u *. Little is known about u *, however, random interlacements on $${\mathbb{Z}^d}$$ , for large d, ought to exhibit similarities to random interlacements on a (2d)-regular tree, where the corresponding critical parameter can be explicitly computed, see Teixeira (Electron J Probab 14:1604–1627, 2009). We show in this article that lim inf d  u */ log d ≥ 1. This lower bound is in agreement with the above mentioned heuristics.

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