Gibbsianness and non-Gibbsianness for Bernoulli lattice fields under removal of isolated sites

Abstract

We consider the i.i.d. Bernoulli field ${\mathrm{\mu }}_p$ on ${\mathbb{Z}}^d$ with occupation density $p\in [0,1]$. To each realization of the set of occupied sites we apply a thinning map that removes all occupied sites that are isolated in graph distance. We show that, while this map seems non-invasive for large p, as it changes only a small fraction $p{(1-p)}^{2d}$ of sites, there is $p(d)<1$ such that for all $p\in (p(d),1)$ the resulting measure is a non-Gibbsian measure, i.e., it does not possess a continuous version of its finite-volume conditional probabilities. On the other hand, for small p, the Gibbs property is preserved.