Universal inverse-degree upper bound for critical percolation

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Let GG be an infinite, connected, transitive, simple graph of vertex degree dd that is not one-dimensional, and let pc(G)p_c(G) be its Bernoulli bond percolation critical probability. Universal inverse-degree conjecture. There exists a universal constant CC such that

pc(G)≤Cd.p_c(G)\leq\frac{C}{d}.

This conjecture would strengthen known uniform gaps below 11 for Cayley graphs and would imply, together with locality, that pcp_c attains a global maximum on the space of non-one-dimensional transitive graphs. The source leaves the conjecture open.

References

Primary source

Philip Easo and Tom Hutchcroft, “The critical percolation probability is local”, arXiv:2310.10983 (2023).

Additional references

5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2008–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1603.00401, arXiv:1603.04724, arXiv:1309.0986, arXiv:0804.4883.

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