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Bernoulli Percolation Model


A Bernoulli percolation model is a model of d-dimensional percolation theory in which the open or closed status of each relevant area or element is random and independent. Examples include Bernoulli bond percolation and Bernoulli site percolation, as well as Bernoulli models in discrete percolation theory and continuum percolation theory.

Terminology varies across the literature on percolation theory. Some authors use d-dimensional Bernoulli percolation specifically for the standard bond percolation model on the regular point lattice Z^d. In this convention, each edge e in E^d is independently open with probability p in [0,1] or closed with probability 1-p, where

 E^d={{x,y}:x,y in Z^d,|x-y|=1}.

This formulation uses graph theory terminology but is probabilistic in emphasis (Cerf 2006).

For nearest-neighbor Bernoulli bond percolation on Z^d, Anthropic (2026) released an AI-generated Lean 4 development claiming that the percolation probability vanishes at the percolation threshold in every dimension d>=2. No independent human verification of the proof had been reported as of Sep. 9, 2026.


See also

AB Percolation, Bond Percolation, Boolean Model, Boolean-Poisson Model, Bootstrap Percolation, Cayley Tree, Cluster, Cluster Perimeter, Continuum Percolation Theory, Dependent Percolation, Discrete Percolation Theory, Disk Model, First-Passage Percolation, Germ-Grain Model, Inhomogeneous Percolation Model, Lattice Animal, Long-Range Percolation Model, Mixed Percolation Model, Oriented Percolation Model, Percolation, Percolation Theory, Percolation Threshold, Polyomino, Random-Cluster Model, Random-Connection Model, Random Walk, s-Cluster, s-Run, Site Percolation

Portions of this entry contributed by Christopher Stover

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References

Anthropic. "Percolation Continuity." Sep. 3, 2026. https://github.com/anthropics/formal-math/tree/795efb86f191735c5481675763537cfb4ff37e55/percolation.Cerf, R. In The Wulff Crystal in Ising and Percolation Models: Ecole d'Eté de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XXXIV-2004 (Ed. J. Picard). Netherlands: Springer-Verlag, 2006.Grimmett, G. Percolation, 2nd ed. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 1999.

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Weisstein, Eric W., with contributions by Christopher Stover. "Bernoulli Percolation Model." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/BernoulliPercolationModel.html

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