Near-existence of bigeodesics in dynamical exponential last passage percolation
Abstract
It is believed that, under very general conditions, bi-infinite geodesics (or bigeodesics) do not exist for planar first and last passage percolation (LPP) models. However, if one endows the model with a natural dynamics, thereby gradually perturbing the geometry, then it is plausible that there could exist a non-trivial set of exceptional times at which such bigeodesics exist. For dynamical exponential LPP, we show that is "very close" to being non-trivial; namely, we obtain an lower bound on the probability that there exists a random time at which a non-trivial geodesic of length passes through the origin at its midpoint; note that if the above probability were , then it would imply the non-triviality of . We conjecture that, even if , it a.s. has Hausdorff dimension exactly zero.
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@article{arxiv.2504.12293,
title = {Near-existence of bigeodesics in dynamical exponential last passage percolation},
author = {Manan Bhatia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.12293},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
29 pages, 6 figures. The two main results of the previous version concerned entirely different models and relied on distinct proof techniques. Accordingly, the material has now been reorganized into two separate papers. The present version is one of these, and a companion article "Geodesic switches and exceptional times in dynamical Brownian last passage percolation" has been posted separately