FIID Coloring Random Maps

Source abstract

We show that the percolation components on a square grid can be $5$-colored as a factor of iid so that neighboring components get different colors. Above the critical probability, we observe that these regions can be 4-colored. Along the way, we extend the classical correspondence between fiid process and measurable labellings of the Bernoulli shift to this quotient setting, prove a general coloring result about hyperfinite pmp planar graphs, and clarify some foundational issues about how to define planarity for Borel graphs.