Positivity of the time constant in a continuous model of first passage percolation
Probability
2017-02-28 v2
Abstract
We consider a non trivial Boolean model on for . For every we define as the minimum time needed to travel from to by a traveler that walks at speed outside and at infinite speed inside . By a standard application of Kingman sub-additive theorem, one easily shows that behaves like when goes to infinity, where is a constant named the time constant in classical first passage percolation. In this paper we investigate the positivity of . More precisely, under an almost optimal moment assumption on the radii of the balls of the Boolean model, we prove that if and only if the intensity of the Boolean model satisfies , where is one of the classical critical parameters defined in continuum percolation.
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@article{arxiv.1610.05901,
title = {Positivity of the time constant in a continuous model of first passage percolation},
author = {Jean-Baptiste Gouéré and Marie Théret},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.05901},
year = {2017}
}