The wired arboreal gas on regular trees

Abstract: We study the weak limit of the arboreal gas along any exhaustion of a regular tree with wired boundary conditions. We prove that this limit exists, does not depend on the choice of exhaustion, and undergoes a phase transition. Below and at criticality, we prove the model is equivalent to bond percolation. Above criticality, we characterise the model as the superposition of critical bond percolation and a random collection of infinite one-ended paths. This provides a simple example of an arboreal gas model that continues to exhibit critical-like behaviour throughout its supercritical phase.