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Pablo A. Gomes

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arXiv2026

Phase transitions for percolation of words in one dimension

In this paper, we investigate models of percolation of words on $\mathbb{Z}_+$ with long-range connections. The underlying graph is oriented and constructed according to a sequence of non-negative ranges. In the first model, the sequence of ranges is considered random and, in the second model, deterministic and non-decreasing. In both cases, we establish a phase transition for the occurrence of percolation of all words simultaneously from the origin.

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arXiv2026

Truncated long-range percolation of words on the square lattice

We study mixed long-range percolation on the square lattice. Each vertical edge of unit length is independently open with probability $\varepsilon$, and each horizontal edge of length $i$ is independently open with probability $p_i$. Also, each vertex is assigned independently a random variable taking values 1 and 0 with probability $p$ and $1-p$, respectively. We prove that for a broad class of anisotropic long-range percolation models for which connection probabilities $p_i$ satisfy some regularity conditions, all words (semi-infinite binary sequences) are seen simultaneously from the origin with positive probability, even if all edges with length larger than some constant (depending on $\varepsilon$, $p$, and on the sequence $(p_i)$) are suppressed.

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arXiv2026

The extinction of the contact process in a one-dimensional random environment with long-range interactions

We study the contact process on the long-range percolation cluster on $\mathbb{Z}$ where each edge $\langle i,j \rangle$ is open with probability $|i-j|^{-s}$ for $s> 2$. Using a renormalization procedure we apply Peierls-type argument to prove that the contact process dies out if the transmission rate is smaller than a critical threshold. Our methods involve the control of crossing probabilities for percolation on randomly-stretched lattices as in https://doi.org/10.1214/22-AAP1887.

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arXiv2026

Upper bounds for critical probabilities in Bernoulli Percolation models

We consider bond and site Bernoulli Percolation in both the oriented and the non-oriented cases on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ and obtain rigorous upper bounds for the critical points in those models for every dimension $d \geq 3$.

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arXiv2023

Anisotropic non-oriented bond percolation in high dimensions

We consider inhomogeneous non-oriented Bernoulli bond percolation on $\mathbb{Z}^d$, where each edge has a parameter depending on its direction. We prove that, under certain conditions, if the sum of the parameters is strictly greater than 1/2, we have percolation in sufficiently high dimensions. The main tool is a dynamical coupling between models for different dimensions with different sets of parameters.

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arXiv2022

Percolation of words on the hypercubic lattice with one-dimensional long-range interactions

We investigate the problem of percolation of words in a random environment. To each vertex, we independently assign a letter $0$ or $1$ according to Bernoulli r.v.'s with parameter $p$. The environment is the resulting graph obtained from an independent long-range bond percolation configuration on $\mathbb{Z}^{d-1} \times \mathbb{Z}$, $d\geq 3$, where each edge parallel to $\mathbb{Z}^{d-1}$ has length one and is open with probability $ε$, while edges of length $n$ parallel to $\mathbb{Z}$ are open with probability $p_n$. We prove that if the sum of $p_n$ diverges, then for any $ε$ and $p$, there is a $K$ such that all words are seen from the origin with probability close to $1$, even if all connections with length larger than $K$ are suppressed.

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arXiv2022

Long-range contact process and percolation on a random lattice

We study the phase transition phenomena for long-range oriented percolation and contact process. We studied a contact process in which the range of each vertex are independent, updated dynamically and given by some distribution $N$. We also study an analogous oriented percolation model on the hyper-cubic lattice, here there is a special direction where long-range oriented bonds are allowed; the range of all vertices are given by an i.i.d. sequence of random variables with common distribution $N$. For both models, we prove some results about the existence of a phase transition in terms of the distribution $N$.

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arXiv2020

A note on the dimensional crossover critical exponent

We consider independent anisotropic bond percolation on $\mathbb{Z}^d\times \mathbb{Z}^s$ where edges parallel to $\mathbb{Z}^d$ are open with probability $p<p_c(\mathbb{Z}^d)$ and edges parallel to $\mathbb{Z}^s$ are open with probability $q$, independently of all others. We prove that percolation occurs for $q\geq 8d^2(p_c(\mathbb{Z}^d)-p)$. This fact implies that the so-called Dimensional Crossover critical exponent, if it exists, is greater than 1. In particular, using known results, we conclude the proof that, for $d\geq 11$, the crossover critical exponent exists and equals 1.

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