High-Density Canonical Hard Disks Percolate

We derive high-density percolation for uniform canonical hard-disk packings from Georgii's equivalence of ensembles and Magazinov's high-activity percolation theorem. For every epsilon > 0, every weak limit of uniform square-torus packings sufficiently close to the maximum number density 1/(2 sqrt(3)) has an infinite component when centers at distance at most 2+epsilon are joined. The parameter conversion uses the explicit bound rho <= 1/(2 sqrt(3)) - exp(-4 pi lambda)/9 for stationary Gibbs packings of activity lambda. We give the ensemble argument for arbitrary square sizes and treat the maximum-density endpoint separately. The conclusion addresses the canonical percolation question of Bowen, Lyons, Radin and Winkler; it is not a crystallization theorem. Separated triangular patches show why the uniform sampling hypothesis cannot be replaced by high density alone. This AI-assisted research note is self-audited and unrefereed, credits its published theorem inputs, and makes no absolute priority claim.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-10-19
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23463293
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Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
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High-Density Canonical Hard Disks Percolate

Alper Ferudun
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
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High-Density Canonical Hard Disks Percolate

Alper Ferudun
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Abstract

We derive high-density percolation for uniform canonical hard-disk packings from Georgii's equivalence of ensembles and Magazinov's high-activity percolation theorem. For every epsilon > 0, every weak limit of uniform square-torus packings sufficiently close to the maximum number density 1/(2 sqrt(3)) has an infinite component when centers at distance at most 2+epsilon are joined. The parameter conversion uses the explicit bound rho <= 1/(2 sqrt(3)) - exp(-4 pi lambda)/9 for stationary Gibbs packings of activity lambda. We give the ensemble argument for arbitrary square sizes and treat the maximum-density endpoint separately. The conclusion addresses the canonical percolation question of Bowen, Lyons, Radin and Winkler; it is not a crystallization theorem. Separated triangular patches show why the uniform sampling hypothesis cannot be replaced by high density alone. This AI-assisted research note is self-audited and unrefereed, credits its published theorem inputs, and makes no absolute priority claim.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
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