The critical percolation probability is local

Abstract

We prove Schramm's locality conjecture for Bernoulli bond percolation on transitive graphs: If $(G_n{)}_{n\ge 1}$ is a sequence of infinite vertex-transitive graphs converging locally to a vertex-transitive graph $G$ and $p_c(G_n)\ne 1$ for every $n\ge 1$ then ${\lim }_{n\to \infty }{p}_c(G_n)=p_c(G)$. Equivalently, the critical probability $p_c$ defines a continuous function on the space ${\mathcal{G}}^{\ast }$ of infinite vertex-transitive graphs that are not one-dimensional. As a corollary of the proof, we obtain a new proof that $p_c(G)<1$ for every infinite vertex-transitive graph that is not one-dimensional.

87 pages, 6 figures