Coexistence in two-type first-passage percolation models

Citation
Garet, Olivier et Marchand, Régine, Coexistence in two-type first-passage percolation models, Annals of applied probability , 15((1A)), 2005, pp. 298-330
ISSN journal
10505164
Volume
15
Issue
(1A)
Year of publication
2005
Pages
298 - 330
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
We study the problem of coexistence in a two-type competition model governed by first-passage percolation on .d or on the infinite cluster in Bernoulli percolation. We prove for a large class of ergodic stationary passage times that for distinct points x,y..d, there is a strictly positive probability that {z..d;d(y,z)<d(x,z)} and {z..d;d(y,z)>d(x,z)} are both infinite sets. We also show that there is a strictly positive probability that the graph of time-minimizing path from the origin in first-passage percolation has at least two topological ends. This generalizes results obtained by Häggström and Pemantle for independent exponential times on the square lattice.