Exponential concentration for first passage percolation through modified Poincaré inequalities

Michel Benaïm; Raphaël Rossignol

Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques (2008)

  • Volume: 44, Issue: 3, page 544-573
  • ISSN: 0246-0203

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We provide a new exponential concentration inequality for first passage percolation valid for a wide class of edge times distributions. This improves and extends a result by Benjamini, Kalai and Schramm (Ann. Probab.31 (2003)) which gave a variance bound for Bernoulli edge times. Our approach is based on some functional inequalities extending the work of Rossignol (Ann. Probab.35 (2006)), Falik and Samorodnitsky (Combin. Probab. Comput.16 (2007)).

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Benaïm, Michel, and Rossignol, Raphaël. "Exponential concentration for first passage percolation through modified Poincaré inequalities." Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques 44.3 (2008): 544-573. <http://eudml.org/doc/77982>.

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abstract = {We provide a new exponential concentration inequality for first passage percolation valid for a wide class of edge times distributions. This improves and extends a result by Benjamini, Kalai and Schramm (Ann. Probab.31 (2003)) which gave a variance bound for Bernoulli edge times. Our approach is based on some functional inequalities extending the work of Rossignol (Ann. Probab.35 (2006)), Falik and Samorodnitsky (Combin. Probab. Comput.16 (2007)).},
author = {Benaïm, Michel, Rossignol, Raphaël},
journal = {Annales de l'I.H.P. Probabilités et statistiques},
keywords = {modified Poincaré inequality; concentration inequality; hypercontractivity; first passage percolation; modified Poincare inequality},
language = {eng},
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title = {Exponential concentration for first passage percolation through modified Poincaré inequalities},
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