Bondary-connectivity via graph theory

Abstract

We generalize theorems of Kesten and Deuschel-Pisztora about the connectedness of the exterior boundary of a connected subset of $\mathbb{Z}^d$, where "connectedness" and "boundary" are understood with respect to various graphs on the vertices of $\mathbb{Z}^d$. We provide simple and elementary proofs of their results. It turns out that the proper way of viewing these questions is graph theory, instead of topology.