## Oriented first passage percolation in the mean field limit.(English)Zbl 1453.60159

Summary: The Poisson clumping heuristic has lead Aldous to conjecture the value of the oriented first passage percolation on the hypercube in the limit of large dimensions. Aldous’ conjecture has been rigorously confirmed by J. A. Fill and R. Pemantle [Ann. Appl. Probab. 3, No. 2, 593–629 (1993; Zbl 0783.60102)] by means of a variance reduction trick. We present here a streamlined and, we believe, more natural proof based on ideas emerged in the study of Derrida’s random energy models.

### MSC:

 60K35 Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory 05C80 Random graphs (graph-theoretic aspects) 82B43 Percolation

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