Critical cluster volumes in hierarchical percolation

Abstract

We consider long-range Bernoulli bond percolation on the $d$-dimensional hierarchical lattice in which each pair of points $x$ and $y$ are connected by an edge with probability $1-\exp(-β\|x-y\|^{-d-α})$, where $0<α 3α. \end{cases} \] In particular, we compute the critical exponent $δ$ to be $(d+α)/(d-α)$ when $d$ is below the upper-critical dimension $d_c=3α$ and establish the precise order of polylogarithmic corrections to scaling at the upper-critical dimension itself. Interestingly, we find that these polylogarithmic corrections are not those predicted to hold for nearest-neighbour percolation on $\mathbb{Z}^6$ by Essam, Gaunt, and Guttmann (J. Phys. A 1978). Our work also lays the foundations for the study of the scaling limit of the model: In the high-dimensional case $d \geq 3α$ we prove that the sized-biased distribution of the volume of the cluster of the origin inside a box converges under suitable normalization to a chi-squared random variable, while in the low-dimensional case $d<3α$ we prove that the suitably normalized decreasing list of cluster sizes in a box is tight in $\ell^p\setminus \{0\}$ if and only if $p>2d/(d+α)$.