Critical percolation on any nonamenable group has no infinite clusters

Annals of Probability

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1347-1356

  Benjamini, Itai ^a   Lyons, Russell ^d   Peres, Yuval ^b,c   Schramm, Oded ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amenability; Cayley graphs; Percolation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033164323     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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