Multiple phase transitions for long-range first-passage percolation on lattices

Partha Sarathi Dey
Abstract
Given a graph G with i.i.d. non-negative edge weights, first-passage time between two vertices u and v is defined as the minimum passage time over all paths connecting u and v. Here the weight of a path is sum of all edge weights in the path. In long-range first-passage percolation, any two vertices u,v in G are connected by a weighted edge with the weight given by an independent exponential r.v. with mean d(u,v)^\alpha where d(.,.) is the graph distance and \alpha>0 is a fixed parameter. Standard first-passage percolation corresponds to \alpha=\infty. The growth set upto time t is defined as the set of points reachable from a fixed point within time t. We consider the case where G is the d-dimensional euclidean square lattice and show that there are four different growth regions depending on the value of \alpha. For \alpha2d+1 the rate is linear like the standard model. This is a joint work with Shirshendu Chatterjee.