Subcritical phase of $d$-dimensional Poisson–Boolean percolation and its vacant set

Duminil-Copin, Hugo; Raoufi, Aran; Tassion, Vincent

Annales Henri Lebesgue, Volume 3 (2020), pp. 677-700.

We prove that the Poisson–Boolean percolation on ${ℝ}^d$ undergoes a sharp phase transition in any dimension under the assumption that the radius distribution has a $5d-3$ finite moment (in particular we do not assume that the distribution is bounded). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first proof of sharpness for a model in dimension $d\ge 3$ that does not exhibit exponential decay of connectivity probabilities in the subcritical regime. More precisely, we prove that in the whole subcritical regime, the expected size of the cluster of the origin is finite, and furthermore we obtain bounds for the origin to be connected to distance $n$: when the radius distribution has a finite exponential moment, the probability decays exponentially fast in $n$, and when the radius distribution has heavy tails, the probability is equivalent to the probability that the origin is covered by a ball going to distance $n$ (this result is new even in two dimensions). In the supercritical regime, it is proved that the probability of the origin being connected to infinity satisfies a mean-field lower bound. The same proof carries on to conclude that the vacant set of Poisson–Boolean percolation on ${ℝ}^d$ undergoes a sharp phase transition.

Nous prouvons que la percolation Poisson–Booléenne sur ${ℝ}^d$ a une transition de phase rapide en toute dimension sous l’hypothèse que la distribution pour le rayon des boules a un moment d’ordre $5d-3$ qui est fini (en particulier, nous ne supposons pas que cette distribution est à support compact). Ceci représente la première preuve de ce fait en dimension $d\ge 3$ pour un modèle qui n’exhibe pas de décroissance exponentielle du rayon de la composante connexe de l’origine dans le régime sous-critique. Plus précisément, nous montrons que dans tout le régime sous-critique, l’expérance de la taille de la composante connexe de l’origine est finie, et de plus nous obtenons des estimées sur la probabilité que cette composante connexe ait un rayon plus grand que $n$ : quand la distribution pour le rayon des boules a un moment exponentiel fini, cette probabilité décroit exponentiellement vite en $n$, et quand cette distribution a une queue lourde, la probabilité devient équivalente à la probabilité qu’il existe une boule de diamètre au moins $n$ contenant l’origine. Le même résultat s’étend au complémentaire de la percolation Poisson–Booléenne (aussi appelé ensemble vacant).

Classification: 82B43
Keywords: continuum percolation, sharp threshold, phase transition, subcritical phase

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