Critical Percolation on any Nonamenable Group has no Infinite Clusters

  • Itai Benjamini ,
  • Russell Lyons ,
  • Yuval Peres ,
  • Oded Schramm

in Selected Works of Oded Schramm

Published by Springer New York | 2011

ISBN: 978-1-4419-9674-9

Publication

We show that independent percolation on any Cayley graph of a nonamenable group has no infinite components at the critical parameter. This result was obtained by the present authors earlier as a corollary of a general study of group-invariant percolation. The goal here is to present a simpler self-contained proof that easily extends to quasi-transitive graphs with a unimodular automorphism group. The key tool is a “mass-transport” method, which is a technique of averaging in nonamenable settings.