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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 209 1 b Solution by
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Translation by preserves , so has the same independent Bernoulli- law as . This shift is ergodic, and the number of infinite clusters is shift-invariant. Thus almost surely for some deterministic .
Suppose . With positive probability a finite box meets all infinite clusters. By the finite-energy property of Bernoulli percolation, forcing finitely many sites in the box open has positive conditional probability and joins those clusters without affecting infinity outside the box. The resulting configuration has fewer than infinite clusters on an event of positive probability, contradicting the almost-sure constancy. Hence .
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