TITLE: half-plane percolation clusters
QUESTION [9 upvotes]: Consider critical edge-percolation in the induced subgraph of the square grid with vertex set {$(i,j) \in Z \times Z:\ i+j \geq 0$}, and let $p_n$ be the probability that the cluster containing $(0,0)$ has size $> n$.  How quickly does $p_n$ fall as $n \rightarrow \infty$?

REPLY [2 votes]: In the case of oriented percolation the following regarding your
question are rigorously known in any dimension. Presumably these
results are also known for non-oriented percolation in half-spaces because in
this case it is also known that there is no infinite cluster at
criticality (Barsky, Grimmett and Newman 1991) and furthermore similar arguments apply  for a continuous time percolation model
where there is no orientation (i.e. time axis, see, Bezuidenhout and Grimmett 1991).
Let $\theta(p) = P(|C| = \infty)$,  where $C$ is the
cluster of the origin in oriented percolation with supercritical retention
parameter $p > p_{c}$. Further, let $\theta(p; \gamma) = 1 -
E_{p}(e^{\gamma |C|})$, $\gamma>0$. It is known that
(Aizenman and Barsky 1987, Bezuidenhout and Grimmett 1991 or Aizenman and Jung 1991) there exist
$a,b>0$ such that
\begin{equation}
\theta(p; \gamma) \geq a \gamma^{1 / 2}, \mbox{ for } 0<\gamma<b
\end{equation}
By means of emulating Tauberian theory arguments (due to Aizenmann and
Barsky (1989), see Grimmett's v. 1991 book, Proposition 10.29) and
using that $\theta(p_{c}) = 0$ (Bezuidenhout and Grimmett (1990)),
the last display above is tantamount to 
\begin{equation}
P( |C| \geq m) \approx m^{-\frac{1}{\delta}},\mbox{ } \delta \geq 2,
\end{equation}
where $\approx$ is meant in the logarithmic sence here ($a_{m} \approx b_{m}$ denotes $\frac{\log a_{m}}{\log b_{m}} \rightarrow 1$, as $m \rightarrow \infty$). Note that this implies that $P( |C| \geq m) \geq m^{-1 / 2}$, for all $m$ sufficiently large. 
In dimension 2 in particular the critical exponent for the probability of  $\{0 \leftrightarrow \partial B(n)\}$, that is the origin being connected to the boundary of a box of size $n$, is furthermore known. Durrett (1988) proves that $\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \sqrt{n}P(0 \leftrightarrow \partial B(n)) = +\infty$. 
Hope this helps.