The time constant for Bernoulli percolation is Lipschitz continuous strictly above $p_c$

Raphaël Cerf (1, 2) , Barbara Dembin (3)

1 DMA - Département de Mathématiques et Applications - ENS Paris
2 LMO - Laboratoire de Mathématiques d'Orsay
3 D-MATH - Department of Mathematics [ETH Zurich]

We consider the standard model of i.i.d. first passage percolation on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ given a distribution $G$ on $[0,+\infty]$ ($+\infty$ is allowed). When $G([0,+\infty]) < p_c(d)$, it is known that the time constant $\mu_G$ exists. We are interested in the regularity properties of the map $G\mapsto\mu_G$. We first study the specific case of distributions of the form $G_p=p\delta_1+(1-p)\delta_\infty$ for $p>p_c(d)$. In this case, the travel time between two points is equal to the length of the shortest path between the two points in a bond percolation of parameter $p$. We show that the function $p\mapsto \mu_{G_p}$ is Lipschitz continuous on every interval $[p_0,1]$, where $p_0>p_c(d)$.

Mots clés: First passage percolation; percolation; time constant

Domaines: Probabilités [math.PR]

Raphaël Cerf, Barbara Dembin. The time constant for Bernoulli percolation is Lipschitz continuous strictly above $p_c$. The Annals of Probability, 2022, 50 (5), ⟨10.1214/22-AOP1565⟩. ⟨hal-03123392⟩