A quantitative Burton–Keane estimate under strong FKG condition

Abstract

We consider translationally-invariant percolation models on $\mathbb{Z}^{d}$ satisfying the finite energy and the FKG properties. We provide explicit upper bounds on the probability of having two distinct clusters going from the endpoints of an edge to distance $n$ (this corresponds to a finite size version of the celebrated Burton–Keane [Comm. Math. Phys. 121 (1989) 501–505] argument proving uniqueness of the infinite-cluster). The proof is based on the generalization of a reverse Poincaré inequality proved in Chatterjee and Sen (2013). As a consequence, we obtain upper bounds on the probability of the so-called four-arm event for planar random-cluster models with cluster-weight $q\ge1$.