Topology invariance in percolation thresholds

An universal invariant for site and bond percolation thresholds ( and respectively) is proposed. The invariant writes where and are positive constants, and d the space dimension. It is independent of the coordination number, thus exhibiting a topology invariance at any d. The formula is checked against a large class of percolation problems, including percolation in non-Bravais lattices and in aperiodic lattices as well as rigid percolation. The invariant is satisfied within a relative error of for all the twenty lattices of our sample at d=2, d=3, plus all hypercubes up to d=6. Received: 7 July 1997 / Accepted: 5 November 1997