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In this paper we describe the percolation analogues of the Gibbs and Helmholtz potentials and use these quantities to prove some general inequalities concerning the critical exponents of percolation processes.
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Communicated by J. Fröhlich
Partially supported by NSF grant MCS 83-00836, this author is an AMS Postdoctoral Research Fellow 1984–1986
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Durrett, R., Nguyen, B. Thermodynamic inequalities for percolation. Commun.Math. Phys. 99, 253–269 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01212282
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