First passage percolation has sublinear distance variance

Annals of Probability

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1970-1978

  Benjamini, Itai ^a   Kalai, Gil ^b   Schramm, Oded ^c  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete cube; Discrete harmonic analysis; Discrete isoperimetric inequalities; Harmonic analysis; Hypercontractive; Influences; Random metrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346962333     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1068646373     Document Type: Article

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