Connective-constant lower bound for percolation ($p_c\ge {\mu }^{-1}$)

For independent bond percolation on a transitive locally finite lattice, let $c_n$ count rooted self-avoiding walks and let $\mu =\lim c_n^{1/n}$ be the connective constant. An infinite open percolation cluster supplies an open walk of every length. The union bound gives $\theta (p)\le c_n{p}^n$, which tends to zero when $p\mu <1$. Thus $p_c\ge 1/\mu$.