The one-arm exponent for mean-field long-range percolation

Abstract

Consider a long-range percolation model on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ where the probability that an edge $\{x,y\} \in \mathbb{Z}^d \times \mathbb{Z}^d$ is open is proportional to $\|x-y\|_2^{-d \alpha}$ for some $\alpha \gt 0$ and where $d \gt 3 \min\{2,\alpha\}$. We prove that in this case the one-arm exponent equals $\min\{4,\alpha\}/2$. We also prove that the maximal displacement for critical branching random walk scales with the same exponent. This establishes that both models undergo a phase transition in the parameter $\alpha$ when $\alpha =4$.