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Law of large numbers for critical first-passage percolation on the triangular lattice

Probability 2014-03-18 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study the site version of (independent) first-passage percolation on the triangular lattice T\mathbb{T}. Denote the passage time of the site vv in T\mathbb{T} by t(v)t(v), and assume that P(t(v)=0)=P(t(v)=1)=1/2P(t(v)=0)=P(t(v)=1)=1/2. Denote by a0,na_{0,n} the passage time from 0\textbf{0} to (n,0)(n,0), and by b0,nb_{0,n} the passage time from 0\textbf{0} to the halfplane {(x,y):xn}\{(x,y):x\geq n\}. We prove that there exists a constant 0<μ<0<\mu<\infty such that as nn\rightarrow\infty, a0,n/lognμa_{0,n}/\log n\rightarrow \mu in probability and b0,n/lognμ/2b_{0,n}/\log n\rightarrow \mu/2 almost surely. This result confirms a prediction of Kesten and Zhang (Probab. Theory Relat. Fields \textbf{107}: 137--160, 1997). The proof relies on the existence of the full scaling limit of critical site percolation on T\mathbb{T}, established by Camia and Newman.

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@article{arxiv.1310.1247,
  title  = {Law of large numbers for critical first-passage percolation on the triangular lattice},
  author = {Chang-Long Yao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.1247},
  year   = {2014}
}

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14 pages, 2 figures