Submean variance bound for effective resistance of random electric networks (Q934639)

Electric networks on a given graph can be set in correspondence with a reversible Markov chain on the same graph. The randomness is introduced in an electric network by choosing independent and indentically distributed (electric) resistances. Next, the effective resistance is investigated between two finite sets of vertices. The focus of the present paper is on point-to-point effective resistance, the notion appearing in the first passage percolation problems. The main result of the paper is the variance bound for resistances distributed according to a Bernoulli distribution. The main technical tool is a modified Poincaré inequality, first introduced by \textit{D. Falik} and \textit{A. Samorodnitsky} [Edge-isoperimetric inequalities and influences. \url{arxiv:math.CO/0512636} (2005)].