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Substitution Method Critical Probability Bounds for the Square Lattice Site Percolation Model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2008

John C. Wierman
John C. Wierman
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Mathematical Sciences Department, 220 Maryland Hall, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218
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Abstract

The square lattice site percolation model critical probability is shown to be at most .679492, improving the best previous mathematically rigorous upper bound. This bound is derived by extending the substitution method to apply to site percolation models.

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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , June 1995 , pp. 181 - 188
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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