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Disproof of the conjectured subexponentiality of certain functions in percolation theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

J. Van den berg
J. Van den berg*
Affiliation:
Delft University of Technology
*
∗Postal address: Department of Mathematics, Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan 132, 2628 BL Delft, The Netherlands.
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Abstract

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Consider bond-percolation on a graph G with sites S(G). We disprove the conjecture of Hammersley (1957) that the function n → sups ϵ S(G)E [the number of sites s′ at distance n from s which can be reached from s by an open path which, except for s′, only passes through sites at distance smaller than n from s] is always subexponential.

Type
Letters to the Editor
Information
Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , September 1984 , pp. 690 - 691
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1984 

Footnotes

Research supported by the Netherlands Foundation for Mathematics SMC with financial aid from the Netherlands Organization for the Advancement of Pure Research (ZWO).

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