Critical behavior and the limit distribution for long-range oriented percolation. I

Lung-Chi Chen, Akira Sakai

Published 2007-03-15, updated 2007-08-21Version 2

We consider oriented percolation on Z^d times Z_+ whose bond-occupation probability is pD(...), where p is the percolation parameter and D is a probability distribution on Z^d. Suppose that D(x) decays as |x|^{-d-\alpha} for some \alpha>0. We prove that the two-point function obeys an infrared bound which implies that various critical exponents take on their respective mean-field values above the upper-critical dimension 2\min{\alpha,2}. We also show that, for every k, the Fourier transform of the normalized two-point function at time n, with a proper spatial scaling, has a convergent subsequence to exp(-c|k|^{\min{\alpha,2}}) for some c>0.