Geodesics in first passage percolation

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Abstract: 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 Richardson's growth model. This improves earlier results of Haggstrom and Pemantle, Garet and Marchand, and Hoffman who proved that first passage percolation has at least two geodesics and that coexistence is possible in a two color Richardson's growth model.


The so-called first passage percolation process has been introduced in the form of a time-dependent model to describe the passage of a fluid through a porous medium. Loosely speaking, the passage time \(\tau(x,y)\) from a state \(x\) to a state \(y\) is thought of as a geometrical distance therefore the concept of (time) geodesic. It is shown that for a very general class of first passage percolation processes, there exist almost surely at least four disjoint infinite geodesics. Related results are stated for the Richardson's spatial growth models.




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