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Oriented percolation in a random environment

Probability 2012-07-16 v1

Abstract

On the lattice Z~+2:=(x,y)Z×Z+ ⁣:x+yis even\widetilde{\mathbb Z}^2_+:={(x,y)\in \mathbb Z \times \mathbb Z_+\colon x+y \text{is even}} we consider the following oriented (northwest-northeast) site percolation: the lines Hi:=(x,y)Z~+2 ⁣:y=iH_i:={(x,y)\in \widetilde {\mathbb Z}^2_+ \colon y=i} are first declared to be bad or good with probabilities \de\de and 1\de1-\de respectively, independently of each other. Given the configuration of lines, sites on good lines are open with probability pG>pcp_{_G}>p_c, the critical probability for the standard oriented site percolation on Z+×Z+\mathbb Z_+ \times \mathbb Z_+, and sites on bad lines are open with probability pBp_{_B}, some small positive number, independently of each other. We show that given any pair pG>pcp_{_G}>p_c and pB>0p_{_B}>0, there exists a δ(pG,pB)>0\delta (p_{_G}, p_{_B})>0 small enough, so that for δδ(pG,pB)\delta \le \delta(p_G,p_B) there is a strictly positive probability of oriented percolation to infinity from the origin.

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@article{arxiv.1207.3168,
  title  = {Oriented percolation in a random environment},
  author = {Harry Kesten and Vladas Sidoravicius and Maria Eulalia Vares},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.3168},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1204.3197

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