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On the non-convexity of the time constant in first-passage percolation. (English) Zbl 0866.60087

J. M. Hammersley and D. J. A. Welsh [in: Bernoulli-Bayes-Laplace Anniversary Vol., 61-110 (1965; Zbl 0143.40402)] conjectured that in (Bernoulli) edge percolation on \(Z^d\) the time constant \(\mu= \mu(F)\) is a convex function of the distribution function \(F\) of the passage time \(t(e) \geq 0\) of an edge \(e\) provided \(t(e)\) is integrable. In the present paper an example is given for which convexity of the time constant does not hold.
Reviewer: K.Schürger (Bonn)

MSC:

60K35 Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory
82B05 Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general)

Citations:

Zbl 0143.40402