Coexistence for Richardson type competing spatial growth models (Q1774196)

The stationary first passage percolation is first studied. The measure on the space of configurations is supposed to have good properties including ergodicity. From there a competing spatial growth model is constructed with three possible states \{0,1,2\} at each vertex. Vertices in states 1 and 2 remain in their state for ever while vertices in state 0 can switch to state 1 or state 2. The author proves that with positive probability, state 1 and 2 both reach an infinite number of vertices. This improves results of \textit{O. Häggström} and \textit{R. Pemantle} [J. Appl. Probab. 35, 683--692 (1998; Zbl 0920.60085)]. \textit{O. Garet} and \textit{R. Marchand} gave recently another proof of the main theorem [Ann. Appl. Probab. 15, 298--330 (2005; Zbl 1080.60092)].