Sublinearity of the travel-time variance for dependent first-passage percolation (Q414287)

Let \(E\) be the set of edges of the \(d\)-dimensional cubic lattice, with \(d>1\), and let \(t(e),\;e\in E\), be nonnegative values. The passage time from a vertex \(v\) to a vertex \(w\) is defined as the infimum over all paths from \(v\) to \(w\), of the sum over all edges. \textit{I. Benjamini, G. Kalai} and \textit{O. Schramm} [Ann. Probab. 31, No. 4, 1970--1978 (2003; Zbl 1087.60070)] proved that, if the \(t(e)\)'s are i.i.d. two-valued positive random variables, the variance of the passage time from the vertex \(0\) to a vertex \(v\) is sublinear in the distance from 0 to \(v\). This result was extended to a large class of independent, continuously distributed \(t\)-variables by Benaim and Rossignol. The authors extend the result by Benjamini, Kalai and Schramm [loc. cit.] in a very different direction, namely to a large class of models where the \(t(e)\)'s are dependent. This class includes, among other interesting cases, a model studied by Higuchi and Zhang, where the passage time corresponds with the minimal number of sign changes in a subcritical ``Ising landscape''.