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The expected subcritical cluster size of the free product is also found in terms of the subcritical cluster sizes of the factors. In particular, we prove that p<jats:sub>c<\/jats:sub>for the Cayley graph of the modular group PSL<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>(\u2124) (with the standard generators) is 0.5199\u2026, the unique root of the polynomial 2p<jats:sup>5<\/jats:sup>- 6p<jats:sup>4<\/jats:sup>+ 2p<jats:sup>3<\/jats:sup>+ 4p<jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>- 1 in the interval (0, 1).<\/jats:p><jats:p>In the case when groups G<jats:sub>i<\/jats:sub>can be \"well approximated\" by a sequence of quotient groups, we show that the critical probabilities of the free product of these approximations converge to the critical probability of G<jats:sub>1<\/jats:sub>* G<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>* \u22ef * G<jats:sub>n<\/jats:sub>and the speed of convergence is exponential. Thus for residually finite groups, for example, one can restrict oneself to the case when each free factor is finite.<\/jats:p><jats:p>We show that the critical point, introduced by Schonmann, p<jats:sub>exp<\/jats:sub>of the free product is just the minimum of p<jats:sub>exp<\/jats:sub>for the factors.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1142\/s0218196708004524","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2008,6,24]],"date-time":"2008-06-24T09:38:40Z","timestamp":1214300320000},"page":"683-704","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["CRITICAL PERCOLATION OF FREE PRODUCT OF GROUPS"],"prefix":"10.1142","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"IVA","family":"KOZ\u00c1KOV\u00c1","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USA"}]}],"member":"219","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2011,11,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"rf1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/BF01212322"},{"key":"rf2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/BF01015729"},{"key":"rf3","first-page":"1347","volume":"27","author":"Benjamini I.","journal-title":"Ann. 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