PercolationScaleTail #
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The union bound over scales for the percolation scale #
The percolation estimate of Section 5.2 produces, at every scale k, a bound
P[light crossing at scale k] ≤ exp(-A 3^k) with a rate A independent of k.
This file turns a family of such bounds into the two statements the
chains-of-good-cubes proposition needs:
- the light crossings stop occurring almost surely, so the percolation scale
percolationScaleTotalis almost surely given by its defining property; and - the tail
P[Y ≥ N] ≤ exp(-(A/6) 3^N)for everyN ≥ 1.
Both come from the same elementary observation: because 3^i ≥ 1 + 2i, the
sequence exp(-u 3^i) is dominated by the geometric sequence
exp(-u) exp(-2u)^i, whose sum is at most 2 exp(-u) as soon as
exp(-2u) ≤ 1/2. Summing from the scale N - 1 — the first scale at which the
defining property of the percolation scale can fail when Y ≥ N — gives
2 exp(-A 3^{N-1}), and the second factor of 2 is absorbed into the exponent
by lowering the rate from A/3 to A/6. The clause is stated for N ≥ 1: at
N = 0 the left-hand side is 1 and no positive rate can bound it.
Main results #
tsum_exp_mul_three_pow_le— the geometric domination ofexp(-u 3^i).measure_iUnion_shift_le— the union bound from the scalejupwards.ae_mem_eventuallyHeavyPaths— the light crossings stop almost surely.measure_le_percolationScaleTotal_le— the tail of the percolation scale.
References #
- ABK26, the chains of good cubes of Section 5.2.
1. Geometric domination of a doubly exponential sequence #
2. The union bound over scales, for an abstract family #
The union bound from a base scale. A family of events whose
probabilities decay like exp(-A 3^k) has union from the scale j upwards of
probability at most twice the j-th bound.
Almost surely the events stop occurring. This is the first Borel-Cantelli lemma applied to the summable family.
3. The percolation scale #
The level set of the percolation scale is covered from the scale j.
If Y ≥ j + 1 then the defining property fails at j, so a light crossing
occurs at some scale at least j.
The light crossings stop almost surely, which is the hypothesis of
percolationScaleTotal_ae_crossing.
The tail of the percolation scale, for every N ≥ 1. The union bound
runs from the scale N - 1, and the factor 2 of the geometric sum is absorbed
by lowering the rate from A/3 to A/6.