Homogenization via sprinkling

Abstract: We show that a superposition of an $\varepsilon$-Bernoulli bond percolation and any everywhere percolating subgraph of $\mathbb Z^d$, $d\ge 2$, results in a connected subgraph, which after a renormalization dominates supercritical Bernoulli percolation. This result, which confirms a conjecture of the first author together with H\"aggstr\"om and Schramm (2000), is mainly motivated by obtaining finite volume characterizations of uniqueness for general percolation processes.