On the chemical distance for supercritical Bernoulli percolation (Q2563949)

The paper deals with Bernoulli bond percolation on \(\mathbb{Z}^d\) with nearest neighbour edges in the supercritical phase. For the minimal length of an open path connecting two sites in the same cluster, large deviation estimates of exponential decay are proven. Since lower bounds of the same order can easily be obtained, they are of exact order. The results improve earlier bounds of polynomial resp. subexponential order by several authors. The proof is based on the deterministic construction of short paths by means of renormalization techniques.