Coalescence of Euclidean geodesics on the Poisson--Delaunay triangulation
Authors
- Coupier, David
- Hirsch, Christian
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification
- 60D05
Keywords
- coalescence, Burton-Keane argument, Delaunay triangulation, relative neighborhood graph, Poisson point process, first-passage percolation, sublinearity
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Abstract
Let us consider Euclidean first-passage percolation on the Poisson-Delaunay triangulation. We prove almost sure coalescence of any two semi-infinite geodesics with the same asymptotic direction. The proof is based on an adapted Burton-Keane argument and makes use of the concentration property for shortest-path lengths in the considered graphs. Moreover, by considering the specific example of the relative neighborhood graph, we illustrate that our approach extends to further well-known graphs in computational geometry. As an application, we show that the expected number of semi-infinite geodesics starting at a given vertex and leaving a disk of a certain radius grows at most sublinearly in the radius.
Appeared in
- Bernoulli, 24 (2018), pp. 2721--2751.
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