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This monograph resolves - in a dense class of cases - several open problems concerning geodesics in i.i.d. first-passage percolation on $\mathbb{Z}^d$. Our primary interest is in the empirical measures of edge-weights observed along…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Erik Bates

This paper gives a self-contained proof of the non-existence of nontrivial bi-infinite geodesics in directed planar last-passage percolation with exponential weights. The techniques used are couplings, coarse graining, and control of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Márton Balázs , Ofer Busani , Timo Seppäläinen

Given an infinite connected graph, a way to randomly perturb its metric is to assign random i.i.d. lengths to the edges. An open question attributed to Furstenberg is whether there exists a two-sided infinite geodesic in first passage…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Itai Benjamini , Romain Tessera

In first-passage percolation, one places nonnegative i.i.d. random variables (T(e)) on the edges of Z^d. A geodesic is an optimal path for the passage times T(e). Consider a local property of the time environment. We call it a pattern. We…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Antonin Jacquet

A well-known question in planar first-passage percolation concerns the convergence of the empirical distribution of weights as seen along geodesics. We demonstrate this convergence for an explicit model, directed last-passage percolation on…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-17 James B. Martin , Allan Sly , Lingfu Zhang

We consider the Busemann process in planar directed first passage percolation. We extend existing techniques to establish the existence of the process in our setting and determine its distribution in a number of integrable models. As…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Sam McKeown

We celebrate the 50th anniversary of one the most classical models in probability theory. In this survey, we describe the main results of first passage percolation, paying special attention to the recent burst of advances of the past 5…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Antonio Auffinger , Michael Damron , Jack Hanson

In Brownian last-passage percolation (BLPP), the Busemann functions $\mathcal B^{\theta}(\mathbf x,\mathbf y)$ are indexed by two points $\mathbf x,\mathbf y \in \mathbb Z \times \mathbb R$, and a direction parameter $\theta > 0$. We derive…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Timo Seppäläinen , Evan Sorensen

We study geodesics in the Brochette first-passage percolation model, where edges on the same axis-parallel line share a common random passage time, inducing long-range dependence. We focus on the maximal transversal deviation H n of…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Maxime Marivain

Coalescence of semi-infinite geodesics remains a central question in planar first passage percolation. In this paper we study finer properties of the coalescence structure of finite and semi-infinite geodesics for exactly solvable models of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Riddhipratim Basu , Sourav Sarkar , Allan Sly

We study the directed last-passage percolation model on the planar square lattice with nearest-neighbor steps and general i.i.d. weights on the vertices, outside of the class of exactly solvable models. Stationary cocycles are constructed…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Nicos Georgiou , Firas Rassoul-Agha , Timo Seppäläinen

Let us consider Euclidean first-passage percolation on the Poisson-Delaunay triangulation. We prove almost sure coalescence of any two semi-infinite geodesics with the same asymptotic direction. The proof is based on an adapted Burton-Keane…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-03-17 David Coupier , Christian Hirsch

First-passage percolation is the study of the metric space $(\mathbb{Z}^d,T)$, where $T$ is a random metric defined as the weighted graph metric using random edge-weights $(t_e)_{e\in \mathcal{E}^d}$ assigned to the nearest-neighbor edges…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Michael Damron , Pengfei Tang

In first-passage percolation, we assign i.i.d.~nonnegative weights $(t_e)$ to the nearest-neighbor edges of $\mathbb{Z}^d$ and study the induced pseudometric $T = T(x,y)$. In this paper, we focus on geodesics, or optimal paths for $T$, and…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Michael Damron , Jack Hanson , Christopher Janjigian , Wai-Kit Lam , Xiao Shen

We consider a wide class of ergodic first passage percolation processes on Z^2 and prove that there exist at least four one-sided geodesics a.s. We also show that coexistence is possible with positive probability in a four color…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-11-19 Christopher Hoffman

We consider geodesics for first passage percolation (FPP) on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ with iid passage times. As has been common in the literature, we assume that the FPP system satisfies certain basic properties conjectured to be true, and derive…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Kenneth S. Alexander

We consider the geodesic of the directed last passage percolation with iid exponential weights. We find the explicit one-point distribution of the geodesic location joint with the last passage times, and its limit as the parameters go to…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Zhipeng Liu

We construct an edge-weight distribution for i.i.d. first-passage percolation on $\mathbb{Z}^2$ whose limit shape is not a polygon and whose extreme points are arbitrarily dense in the boundary. Consequently, the associated Richardson-type…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-03-14 Michael Damron , Michael Hochman

Given an infinite connected graph, a way to randomly perturb its metric is to assign random i.i.d. lengths to the edges of the graph. Assume that the graph is infinite and of bounded degree. Assume also strict positivity and finite…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-11 Sagnik Jana , Yulan Qing

Geodesic coalescence, or the tendency of geodesics to merge together, is a hallmark phenomenon observed in a variety of planar random geometries involving a random distortion of the Euclidean metric. As a result of this, the union of…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Manan Bhatia