Planar first-passage geometry and the absence of bigeodesics
What the paper claims, in its own words
Proves that planar first-passage percolation has no doubly infinite geodesic for iid nonnegative nonatomic edge weights when the minimum of four weights has finite second moment. For exponential weights, the limit shape is strictly convex with C1 boundary. Differentiability also holds for every Gamma law with positive shape and rate.
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The original papers (2)
- No bigeodesics in planar first-passage percolation (PDF, opens in a new tab) September 24, 2026
- Strict convexity and differentiability of the planar exponential first-passage limit shape (PDF, opens in a new tab) September 24, 2026 Formal proof listed