English
Related papers

Related papers: First-passage percolation with exponential times o…

200 papers

We study first-passage percolation on random simple triangulations and their dual maps with independent identically distributed link weights. Our main result shows that the first-passage percolation distance concentrates in an…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Benedikt Stufler

We consider the branching random walk $\{\mathcal R^N_z: z\in V_N\}$ with Gaussian increments indexed over a two-dimensional box $V_N$ of side length $N$, and we study the first passage percolation where each vertex is assigned weight…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-27 Jian Ding , Subhajit Goswami

Given an infinite connected graph $G$, a way to randomly perturb its metric is to assign random i.i.d. lengths to the edges of the graph, a process called first-passage percolation. Assume that the graph is infinite and of bounded degree.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Dominic Bair , Sagnik Jana , Yulan Qing

We study the time constant $\mu(e_{1})$ in first passage percolation on $\mathbb Z^{d}$ as a function of the dimension. We prove that if the passage times have finite mean, $$\lim_{d \to \infty} \frac{\mu(e_{1}) d}{\log d} = \frac{1}{2a},$$…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-01-29 Antonio Auffinger , Si Tang

In the classic model of first passage percolation, for pairs of vertices separated by a Euclidean distance $L$, geodesics exhibit deviations from their mean length $L$ that are of order $L^\chi$, while the transversal fluctuations, known as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-14 Alexander P. Kartun-Giles , Marc Barthelemy , Carl P. Dettmann

This paper focuses on the time constant for last passage percolation on complete graph. Let $G_n=([n],E_n)$ be the complete graph on vertex set $[n]=\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$, and i.i.d. sequence $\{X_e:e\in E_n\}$ be the passage times of edges.…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Xian-Yuan Wu , Rui Zhu

The spectral gap $\gamma$ of a finite, ergodic, and reversible Markov chain is an important parameter measuring the asymptotic rate of convergence. In applications, the transition matrix $P$ may be unknown, yet one sample of the chain up to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-25 Daniel Hsu , Aryeh Kontorovich , David A. Levin , Yuval Peres , Csaba Szepesvári

We consider a run-and-tumble particle on a half-line with an absorbing target at the origin. The particle has an internal velocity state that switches between two opposite values at Poisson-distributed times. The position of the particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-19 Pascal Grange , Linglong Yuan

Consider a Markov process \omega_t at equilibrium and some event C (a subset of the state-space of the process). A natural measure of correlations in the process is the pairwise correlation \Pr[\omega_0,\omega_t \in C] - \Pr[\omega_0 \in…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-08-24 Alan Hammond , Elchanan Mossel , Gábor Pete

One model of real-life spreading processes is First Passage Percolation (also called SI model) on random graphs. Social interactions often follow bursty patterns, which are usually modelled with i.i.d.~heavy-tailed passage times on edges.…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Alexey Medvedev , Gábor Pete

We consider a first-passage percolation model on a Delaunay triangulation of the plane. In this model each edge is independently equipped with a nonnegative random variable, with distribution function F, which is interpreted as the time it…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-08-15 Leandro P. R. Pimentel

We consider the standard model of i.i.d. first passage percolation on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ given a distribution $G$ on $[0,+\infty]$ ($+\infty$ is allowed). When $G([0,+\infty]) < p_c(d)$, it is known that the time constant $\mu_G$ exists. We are…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-29 Raphaël Cerf , Barbara Dembin

General upper bounds on fluctuations of trajectory observables were recently obtained. It turned out that the size of fluctuations of dynamical observable is limited from below and from above. For the moment generating function of general…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-13 V. V. Ryazanov

First-passage properties are central to the kinetics of target-search processes. Theoretical approaches so far primarily focused on predicting first-passage statistics for a given process or model. In practice, however, one faces the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-08 Rick Bebon , Aljaz Godec

For random walks on networks (graphs), it is a theoretical challenge to explicitly determine the mean first-passage time (MFPT) between two nodes averaged over all pairs. In this paper, we study the MFPT of random walks in the famous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-27 Zhongzhi Zhang , Yuan Lin , Shuigeng Zhou , Bin Wu , Jihong Guan

In this paper, by using two different techniques we derive an explicit formula for the mean first-passage time (MFPT) between any pair of nodes on a general undirected network, which is expressed in terms of eigenvalues and eigenvectors of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-01-04 Zhongzhi Zhang , Alafate Julaiti , Baoyu Hou , Hongjuan Zhang , Guanrong Chen

We consider the problem of bounding mean first passage times for a class of continuous-time Markov chains that captures stochastic interactions between groups of identical agents. The quantitative analysis of such probabilistic population…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Michael Backenköhler , Luca Bortolussi , Verena Wolf

We study the two most common types of percolation process on a sparse random graph with a given degree sequence. Namely, we examine first a bond percolation process where the edges of the graph are retained with probability p and afterwards…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nikolaos Fountoulakis

We introduce and study a non-oriented first passage percolation model having a property of statistical invariance by time reversal. This model is defined in a graph having directed edges and the passage times associated with each set of…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Alejandro F. Ramírez , Santiago Saglietti , Lingyun Shao

First-passage times are often the most relevant aspect of a complex Markovian network, because they signify when information processing has resulted in a definite decision. Previous studies have shown that for kinetic proofreading networks…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-25 Julian B. Voits , Ulrich S. Schwarz