Kesten's incipient infinite cluster for the three-dimensional, metric-graph Gaussian free field, from critical level-set percolation, and for the Villain model, from random cluster geometries and a Swendsen-Wang type algorithm

Abstract

We address one open problem in a recent work due to Ding and Wirth, the first version of which was available in $2019$, relating to level-set percolation on metric-graphs for the Gaussian free field in three dimensions, in which it was shown that a percolation estimate that the authors employ for studying connectivity properties of different heights of the metric graph Gaussian free field is bounded above poly-logarithmically. In three dimensions, in order to construct Kesten's incipient infinite cluster which was first seminally introduced for Bernoulli percolation in two dimensions, in $1986$, through the equality of two probabilistic quantities, we make use of a streamlined version of the $1986$ argument due to Basu and Sapozhnikov, which was first made available in $2016$, that introduces properties of crossing probabilities for demonstrating that the IIC exists for Bernoulli percolation on an infinite connected, bounded degree graph. To make use of such arguments for demonstrating the existence of the metric-graph GFF IIC in three dimensions, we also address another open problem raised in a recent work, from October $2022$, due to Dubedat and Falconet, which expresses an open problem pertaining to the construction of an IIC-type limit for the Villain model.