Interlacements and the uniform spanning forest
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The Aldous-Broder algorithm allows one to sample the uniform spanning tree of a finite graph as the set of first-entry edges of a simple random walk. In this talk, I will discuss how this can be extended to infinite transient graphs by replacing the random walk with the random interlacement process. I will then outline how this new sampling algorithm can be used to compute critical exponents for the uniform spanning forest of $Z^d$.