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Geodesic switches and exceptional times in dynamical Brownian last passage percolation

Probability 2025-11-03 v1

Abstract

We consider Brownian last passage percolation evolving dynamically via a discrete resampling procedure. Using Γ(0,0)(n,n),r\Gamma_{(0,0)}^{(n,n),r} to denote a geodesic from (0,0)(0,0) to (n,n)(n,n) at time rr, we prove that the expected total number of coarse-grained changes (or "switches") accumulated by Γ(0,0)(n,n),r\Gamma_{(0,0)}^{(n,n),r} away from its endpoints during a time interval [s,t][s,t] is at most n5/3+o(1)(ts)n^{5/3+o(1)}(t-s); we expect the exponent 5/35/3 to be tight. Using the above estimate, we establish that the set T\mathscr{T} of exceptional times at which a non-trivial bi-infinite geodesic exists a.s. has Hausdorff dimension at most 1/21/2. Further, for any fixed direction θ\theta, we show that the set TθT\mathscr{T}^\theta\subseteq \mathscr{T} of times at which a non-trivial bi-infinite geodesic directed along θ\theta exists a.s. has Hausdorff dimension equal to 00.

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@article{arxiv.2510.27589,
  title  = {Geodesic switches and exceptional times in dynamical Brownian last passage percolation},
  author = {Manan Bhatia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.27589},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

60 pages, 12 figures. This preprint is one of two works that together replace the earlier preprint arXiv:2504.12293v1. The companion article arXiv:2504.12293v2 proves a quantitative "near-existence" result for non-trivial bigeodesics in dynamical exponential last passage percolation