Approximate zero-one laws and sharpness of the percolation transition in a class of models including two-dimensional Ising percolation

Abstract

One of the most well-known classical results for site percolation on the square lattice is the equation p_c+p_c^*=1. In words, this equation means that for all values ≠ p_c of the parameter p, the following holds: either a.s. there is an infinite open cluster or a.s. there is an infinite closed “star” cluster. This result is closely related to the percolation transition being sharp: below p_c, the size of the open cluster of a given vertex is not only (a.s.) finite, but has a distribution with an exponential tail. The analog of this result has been proven by Higuchi in 1993 for two-dimensional Ising percolation (at fixed inverse temperature β<β_c) with external field h, the parameter of the model.

Using sharp-threshold results (approximate zero-one laws) and a modification of an RSW-like result by Bollobás and Riordan, we show that these results hold for a large class of percolation models where the vertex values can be “nicely” represented (in a sense which will be defined precisely) by i.i.d. random variables. We point out that the ordinary percolation model obviously belongs to this class and we also show that the Ising model mentioned above belongs to it.