Percolation Thresholds in Hyperbolic Lattices

Abstract

We use invasion percolation to compute numerical values for bond and site percolation thresholds $p_c$ (existence of an infinite cluster) and $p_u$ (uniqueness of the infinite cluster) of tesselations $\{P,Q\}$ of the hyperbolic plane, where $Q$ faces meet at each vertex and each face is a $P$-gon. Our values are accurate to six or seven decimal places, allowing us to explore their functional dependency on $P$ and $Q$ and to numerically compute critical exponents. We also prove rigorous upper and lower bounds for $p_c$ and $p_u$ that can be used to find the scaling of both thresholds as a function of $P$ and $Q$.