Expansion in high dimension for the growth constants of lattice trees and lattice animals

Abstract

We compute the first three terms of the 1/d expansions for the growth constants and one-point functions of nearest-neighbour lattice trees and lattice (bond) animals on the integer lattice Zd, with rigorous error estimates. The proof uses the lace expansion, together with a new expansion for the one-point functions based on inclusion-exclusion.

arXiv comment38 pages, 8 figures. Added section 6 to obtain the first term in the expansion, making the present paper more self-contained with very little change to the structure of the original paper. Accepted for publication in Combinatorics Probability and Computing