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Christoforos Panagiotis
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2019
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Physics
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We introduce a formula for translating any upper bound on the percolation threshold of a lattice g into a lower bound on the exponential growth rate of lattice animals $a(G)$ and vice-versa. We exploit this to improve on the best known asymptotic bounds on $a(mathbb{Z}^d)$ as $dto infty$. Our formula remains valid if instead of lattice animals we enumerate certain sub-species called interfaces. Enumerating interfaces leads to functional duality formulas that are tightly connected to percolation and are not valid for lattice animals, as well as to strict inequalities for the percolation threshold. Incidentally, we prove that the rate of the exponential decay of the cluster size distribution of Bernoulli percolation is a continuous function of $pin (0,1)$.
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We introduce a method for translating any upper bound on the percolation threshold of a lattice $G$ into a lower bound on the exponential growth rate $a(G)$ of lattice animals and vice-versa. We exploit this in both directions. We improve on the best known asymptotic lower and upper bounds on $a(mathbb{Z}^d)$ as $dto infty$. We use percolation as a tool to obtain the latter, and conversely we use the former to obtain lower bounds on $p_c(mathbb{Z}^d)$. We obtain the rigorous lower bound $dot{p}_c(mathbb{Z}^3)>0.2522$ for 3-dimensional site percolation.
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