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Graph diameter in long-range percolation

Probability 2014-01-31 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We study the asymptotic growth of the diameter of a graph obtained by adding sparse "long" edges to a square box in Zd\Z^d. We focus on the cases when an edge between xx and yy is added with probability decaying with the Euclidean distance as xys+o(1)|x-y|^{-s+o(1)} when xy|x-y|\to\infty. For s(d,2d)s\in(d,2d) we show that the graph diameter for the graph reduced to a box of side LL scales like (logL)Δ+o(1)(\log L)^{\Delta+o(1)} where Δ1:=log2(2d/s)\Delta^{-1}:=\log_2(2d/s). In particular, the diameter grows about as fast as the typical graph distance between two vertices at distance LL. We also show that a ball of radius rr in the intrinsic metric on the (infinite) graph will roughly coincide with a ball of radius exp{r1/Δ+o(1)}\exp\{r^{1/\Delta+o(1)}\} in the Euclidean metric.

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@article{arxiv.math/0406379,
  title  = {Graph diameter in long-range percolation},
  author = {Marek Biskup},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0406379},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

17 pages, extends the results of arXiv:math.PR/0304418 to graph diameter, substantially revised and corrected, added a result on volume growth asymptotic