Nearest-neighbor critical-radius conjecture for the square-lattice disc model

Let RcNN(p)R_c^{\texttt{NN}}(p) denote the critical radius for the nearest-neighbor model with parameter pp, and let RcdecR_c^{\texttt{dec}} denote the critical radius of the decorrelated model. Critical-radius conjecture.

RcNN()=Rcdec=1.R_c^{\texttt{NN}}(\infty)=R_c^{\texttt{dec}}=1.

Numerical simulations suggest this equality. At R=1R=1, the nearest-neighbor model has edge density 1/21/2, matching the critical probability for Bernoulli percolation on the square lattice, while the decorrelated model has a symmetry around R=1R=1. The exact critical radii remain to be determined.

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Jérôme Casse, Irène Marcovici and Maxence Poutrel, “Gilbert's disc model conditioned on the square lattice”, arXiv:2607.14062 (2026).

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