A New Link Between Bernoulli Percolation and the Gaussian Free Field

Speaker


Hugo Duminil-Copin (Institutdes Hautes Etudes Scientifiques)
Date
Thu January 17th 2019, 4:30pm
Location
Bldg 380, Room 380C<br />
MRC Event Series

Percolation models describe the inside of a porous material. The theory emerged timidly in the middle of the twentieth century before becoming one of the major objects of interest in probability and mathematical physics. In this talk, we prove that Bernoulli percolation on graphs with isoperimetric dimension d>4 undergoes a non-trivial phase transition by exhibiting a new link between Bernoulli percolation and the Gaussian Free Field (GFF). As a corollary, we obtain that the critical point of Bernoulli percolation on infinite Cayley graphs with super-linear growth is strictly smaller than one, thus answering a conjecture of Benjamini and Schramm. 

You can learn more about Professor Hugo Huminil-Copin at https://www.ihes.fr/~duminil/