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Pith's one-line read In exponential directed last-passage percolation, a random countably infinite dense set of exceptional directions carries exactly two semi-infinite geodesics per site—a left and a right one—each family forming a coalescing tree, while…

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arxiv 1908.09040 v3 pith:73D72FVH submitted 2019-08-23 math.PR

Christopher Janjigian , Firas Rassoul-Agha , Timo Seppäläinen This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords last-passagepercolationsemi-infinitegeodesicsBusemannprocessmeasurescoalescencecompetitioninterfaceKPZuniversalityrandomHamilton-Jacobiequations
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This paper establishes the complete geometry of semi-infinite geodesics in the exponential planar directed last-passage percolation model: almost surely there is a random countably infinite dense set $V_\omega$ of interior directions in which every lattice site is the root of exactly two geodesics with that asymptotic direction, a left one and a right one, with each of the two families forming a tree of coalescing paths. In every direction outside $V_\omega$, each site has a unique geodesic and all such geodesics coalesce into a single tree. The exceptional set $V_\omega$ is identified simultaneously with the set of asymptotic directions of competition interfaces and with the set of discontinuity directions of the Busemann process, so geodesic non-uniqueness coincides with non-continuity of Busemann functions. For general i.i.d. weights the paper introduces Busemann measures—Lebesgue–Stieltjes measures of the generalized Busemann functions indexed by direction—and shows that the support of these measures exactly records the directions where uniqueness or coalescence fails whenever a 'jump process' condition holds. The exactly solvable exponential case is the first KPZ-class lattice growth model for which the entire family of semi-infinite geodesics is completely accounted for.

What carries the argument

The machinery is the Busemann measure: the signed Lebesgue–Stieltjes measure $\mu_{x,y}$ obtained from the direction-indexed family of generalized Busemann functions $B^{\xi\pm}_{x,y}$, whose support records those directions in which the one-sided geodesics out of $x$ and $y$ fail to meet. The analysis runs through the support of these measures, the ordering and one-sided continuity of the Busemann geodesics, and two structural conditions: the regularity condition (2.4) on the shape function (strict concavity at non-differentiability points) and the jump process condition (3.5) (every point of every support is isolated). The jump process condition is what forces the exceptional set to be countable and to equal the competition-interface directions, and in the exponential model it holds by a theorem on the queueing representation of the Busemann functions; the strictly concave square-root shape function then gives $U_\xi = \{\xi\}$, so every geodesic is genuinely direction-directed.

What would settle it

To refute the general framework, find an i.i.d. weight distribution satisfying (1.1) with a realization in which some Busemann measure has a non-isolated support point—equivalently, a direction that is a limit of competition-interface directions without being one—since the jump process condition (3.5) and the equality $V_\omega = \{\xi^*(T_x\omega)\}$ would then both fail; to refute the exponential statistics, check numerically whether the spacings of horizontal jump locations in a fixed exceptional direction follow the Catalan law $C_{n-1}2^{-(2n-1)}$ that matches the zero set of simple symmetric random walk.

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Core claim

The paper's central discovery is that the set of exceptional directions of a realization is exactly the union $V_\omega = \bigcup_{x,y} \operatorname{supp} \mu_{x,y}$ of the supports of the Busemann measures, and that this set completely controls the geodesic geometry. In the exponential model, Theorem 3.10 and Theorem 3.11 prove that for every $\xi \notin V_\omega$ the left and right Busemann geodesics $\gamma_{x,\xi-}$ and $\gamma_{x,\xi+}$ coincide for all $x$, form the unique $\xi$-directed geodesic from each site, and all these geodesics coalesce; for every $\xi \in V_\omega$, the two one-sided geodesics from each $x$ differ from the first step, never meet again, and are the only two $\xi$-directed geodesics from $x$, while the left families (and separately the right families) coalesce into trees. The same theorems identify $V_\omega$ with the set of asymptotic directions of competition interfaces and with the set of discontinuities of the Busemann process, establishing a three-way equivalence between geodesic non-uniqueness, interface directions, and jump discontinuities of the stochastic Hamilton–Jacobi solution.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the support of every Busemann measure consists only of isolated points (the jump process condition (3.5)), which is proven for exponential weights but open for general i.i.d. weights; if it fails, the equalities between the exceptional-direction set, the competition-interface directions, and the discontinuity set of the Busemann process, and with them the full two-tree classification, would break.

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  • For every site $x$ and every direction $\xi \notin V_\omega$, the finite geodesic from $x$ to any sequence of endpoints with asymptotic direction $\xi$ converges to the unique $\xi$-directed semi-infinite geodesic; for $\xi \in V_\omega$ it converges to the left or right geodesic according to the side of the competition interface on which the endpoints lie, so the limiting geometry of finite geode
  • The equality of $V_\omega$ with the set of discontinuity directions of the Busemann process means that geodesic non-uniqueness is the same phenomenon as non-uniqueness of the backward Hamiltonian–Jacobi solution: the exceptional directions are exactly the shock directions of the discrete stochastic Burgers equation.
  • In the exponential model the Palm distribution of the locations of jumps of the Busemann process on a line is the zero set of simple symmetric random walk sampled at even times; consequently, the number of instability points in an $n\times n$ box is almost surely $O(n^{3/2}\sqrt{\log n})$.
  • The set $V_\omega$ is dense in the set of directions where the shape function is either non-differentiable or strictly concave, so the exceptional directions are not isolated artifacts—they occur throughout the entire interior of the direction space.

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  • If the jump process condition holds for general i.i.d. weights, as the paper's open problems anticipate, then the same dichotomy—one coalescing tree outside $V_\omega$, two coalescing trees at each direction in $V_\omega$—would govern geodesics in every planar directed LPP, making the exponential picture the universal one rather than an integrable special case.
  • The Busemann-measure framework uses only cocycle, monotonicity, and support properties, so it should transfer to undirected first-passage percolation and to stochastic Hamilton–Jacobi equations with a Hopf–Lax–Oleinik semigroup; in those models the support of the Busemann measures would serve as the full shock set, including branching shocks.
  • The random-walk statistics suggest a sharper universality prediction than the paper states: in any model where the jump condition holds, the law of the location of instability points on a line should be the same SSRW-zero-set law, which could be tested in non-integrable models by simulation.
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Summary. This paper studies the full family of semi-infinite geodesics in planar directed last-passage percolation with i.i.d. continuous weights of finite p>2 moment. The authors introduce Busemann measures, the Lebesgue--Stieltjes measures associated with the monotone Busemann process, and use their supports to encode exceptional directions in which uniqueness or coalescence fails. The main general-weight results characterize the support of Busemann measures via disjoint geodesics (Theorem 3.1), relate coalescence points to isolated points of the support (Theorems 3.4 and 3.5), identify the random set V_omega of exceptional directions with competition-interface directions under the jump process condition (3.5) (Theorem 3.7), and describe uniqueness and coalescence of geodesics inside and outside V_omega (Theorems 3.9 and 3.10). In the exponential model, Theorem 3.11 gives a complete description: countably many dense exceptional directions in which every site emits exactly two semi-infinite geodesics forming left and right coalescing trees, and all other directions in which there is a unique coalescing tree of geodesics. Sections 4 and 5 develop the dynamical-systems interpretation through webs of instability and derive explicit statistics of instability points, including a connection to the zero set of simple symmetric random walk.

Significance. If the results are correct, Theorem 3.11 is the first complete characterization of semi-infinite geodesics in a KPZ-class lattice growth model, and the paper is likely to become a standard reference for the geometry of geodesics in exactly solvable last-passage percolation. The architecture of the proof is sound: the external inputs are cited precisely (Theorems A.1, A.4, A.7, and A.8; the jump-process condition (3.5) from [22]; the no-bigeodesic condition (4.2) from [8,9]), and the internal arguments correctly assemble these inputs. I particularly credit the careful separation of unconditional general-weight results from results that require condition (3.5), which the authors explicitly leave open for non-solvable weights in Section 6, Problem 3. The Palm-kernel arguments in Section 9 are handled in detail through Kallenberg's framework and lead to concrete, falsifiable statistics, including the unexpected comparison with the zero set of simple symmetric random walk.

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  1. [Theorem 3.11(c)] The statement quantifies over all xi in ri U, but for xi not in V_omega the split point s_xi(x) is infinity by definition (3.9), and the competition interface phi^{s_xi(x)} is not defined. Please either restrict the statement to xi in V_omega or add a convention for the case s_xi(x)=infinity, in which both alternative assumptions are vacuous and the conclusion should be the unique-geodesic convergence already contained in Theorem 3.10(c). This is a statement-level omission and does not affect the proof of the main characterization.
  2. [Proof of Theorem 3.11] In the proof of part (c), the line 'call k = x dot hat e' appears to have a missing subscript: it should be k = x dot hat e_1. The same sentence should also specify that the convergence gamma_{x,v_n} -> gamma_{x,xi-} is in the sense of finite-segment convergence, consistent with the definition before the theorem.

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No circularity: central exponential characterization rests on external theorems and nontrivial internal proofs; self-citations are independent prior results.

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The paper's central claim, Theorem 3.11, is not circular. Its load-bearing inputs are external theorems with proofs: the exponential shape function (3.8) from Rost [47], the Busemann process from [27,36], the jump-process condition (3.5) from [22, Theorem 3.4], the no-bigeodesic condition (4.2) from [8,9], and Coupier's at-most-two geodesics theorem, Theorem A.8. None of these is defined in terms of the target theorem, and the paper does not attempt to prove them here. The set V_omega is defined in (3.6) as the union of the supports of the Busemann measures, while the statements that V_omega equals the set of competition-interface directions and the set of Busemann discontinuities are proved via substantial intermediate results, especially Propositions 7.1 and 7.2. The equivalence between the jump-process condition (3.5) and coalescence in Theorem 3.5 is also proved from the support/coalescence characterization of Theorem 3.4, not assumed. The paper is explicit about the open status of (3.5) outside solvable models, listing it as Problem 3 in Section 6, so it does not silently rely on an unverified hypothesis. The only soft spot is a statement-level technical omission in Theorem 3.11(c), where the competition interface phi^{s_xi(x)} is not defined when s_xi(x)=infinity for xi outside V_omega; this is a gap in presentation, not a circular derivation. Accordingly, no fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction and no self-citation chain forces the main conclusion.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 9 assumptions · 1 invented entities

The paper's central claims rest on the Busemann process imported from the authors' prior work [27,36], the regularity condition (2.4), the jump process condition (3.5), and the no-bigeodesics condition (4.2). Of these, only (2.4) is automatically true in the exponential model; (3.5) is proved in [22] but open for general weights, and (4.2) is known only for the exponential model. No free parameters are fitted to data; all constants are derived. The only 'invented entity' is the instability graph, which is defined directly from the Busemann process and carries falsifiable statistical predictions.

assumptions (9)
  • domain assumption Existence and properties of the Busemann process (Theorem A.1 from [27,36]): covariant cocycles B_{xi±}(x,y) with weights recovery, monotonicity, one-sided continuity, and shape-gradient expectations.
    Invoked throughout Sections 3-5; the construction lives on an extended probability space; under (2.4) it is a measurable function of the weights (Remark A.3).
  • domain assumption Regularity condition (2.4): the shape function g is strictly concave at all xi outside D, or equivalently g is differentiable at endpoints of its linear segments.
    Assumed in Theorems 3.1(iii), 3.9(b,d), 3.10, 4.4-4.6 and for the exponential specialization; holds for exponential weights since g is strictly concave and differentiable on ri U (Rost).
  • domain assumption Jump process condition (3.5): every point of supp mu_{x,y} is isolated, for all x,y.
    Key input for Theorems 3.5, 3.7(b), 3.9(c,d), 3.10, 4.4(c,e), 4.11 and Section 5; proven for exponential weights in [22, Theorem 3.4]; open for general weights (Section 6, problem 3).
  • domain assumption No bi-infinite geodesics condition (4.2): the only bi-infinite geodesics are the trivial axis-parallel ones.
    Used in Theorems 4.4(b,e) for the sharp branching and coalescence statements; known for exponential weights via [8,9].
  • domain assumption Exponential weights assumption (3.7) and the shape function g(xi) = (sqrt(xi.e1)+sqrt(xi.e2))^2 (Rost 1981).
    Specializes the general results to the exactly solvable case; also gives strict concavity and differentiability of g and hence (2.4).
  • domain assumption Coupier's theorem (Theorem A.8): in exponential LPP there are at most two xi-directed semi-infinite geodesics out of a given site.
    Used in Theorem 3.11(a) to prove exactly two geodesics in exceptional directions.
  • standard math Shape theorem for LPP (Martin 2004): existence of the non-random concave homogeneous limit g and known behavior near the boundary.
    Quoted in Section 2.1 and used in Lemma 8.4 and in the definition of D.
  • standard math Palm theory and disintegration of Campbell measures (Kallenberg [38,39]) used in Section 9.1-9.2.
    Justifies the Palm kernel definition in (9.4)-(9.5) and the convergence argument (9.14) for the upper bound in Theorem 5.2.
  • standard math Renewal theory for simple symmetric random walk (Feller's inter-arrival distribution (5.5), Revesz's law of iterated logarithm and Chung-type bounds) in Section 5.
    Provides the comparison distribution (5.5) and the almost-sure statements (5.7)-(5.9).
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  • Instability graph S^*_{[zeta,eta]} (web of instability) independent evidence
    purpose: Bookkeeping device recording dual-lattice points x+rho1 where the interval [zeta,eta] intersects the support of the Busemann measure of the diagonal edge, together with directed edges inherited from the dual geodesic graphs; it encodes locations where two global Hamilton-Jacobi solutions (Busemann functions) differ.
    Not postulated from thin air: it is defined directly from the Busemann process (Section 4.2) and its branching and coalescence structure is proved from the geodesic properties; in the exponential model it has falsifiable statistical content (Theorems 5.3-5.4: n^{3/2} upper bound and log-log law), testable in simulations of the corner growth model.

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We consider planar directed last-passage percolation on the square lattice with general i.i.d. weights and study the geometry of the full set of semi-infinite geodesics in a typical realization of the random environment. The structure of the geodesics is studied through the properties of the Busemann functions viewed as a stochastic process indexed by the asymptotic direction. Our results are further connected to the ergodic program for and stability properties of random Hamilton-Jacobi equations. In the exactly solvable exponential model, our results specialize to give the first complete characterization of the uniqueness and coalescence structure of the entire family of semi-infinite geodesics for any model of this type. Furthermore, we compute statistics of locations of instability, where we discover an unexpected connection to simple symmetric random walk.

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Figure 1.1
Figure 1.1. An illustration of the vectors e1, e2, e˘, ep1, ep2, ep ˚ 1 , ep ˚ 2 , and the set U. The dashed lines in the middle plot are edges of the dual lattice Z 2˚ “ Z 2 ` ep ˚ 1 . A statement with ˘ and possibly also ¯ is a conjunction of two statements: one for the top signs, and another one for the bottom signs. We employ to represent an arbitrary element of t´, `u. We use R` “ r0, 8q, Z` “ Z X R` and N “ t1, 2, 3, . . … view at source ↗
Figure 2.1
Figure 2.1. In the first three graphs g is not strictly concave at ξ while in the last two it is. For a given ξ P ri U, let ξ ĺ ξ denote the endpoints of the (possibly degenerate) interval Uξ “ Uξ´ Y Uξ` “ rξ, ξ s. If ξ P D then Uξ´ “ Uξ` “ Uξ while if ξ R D then Uξ´ X Uξ` “ tξu. Set Uei “ teiu, for i P t1, 2u. Additional control over the geometry of geodesics is provided by this regularity condition: The shape function g is st… view at source ↗
Figure 2.2
Figure 2.2. The geodesic tree Tx rooted at x. The competition interface (solid line) emanates from x ` ep ˚ 1 and separates the subtrees of Tx rooted at x ` e1 and x ` e2. Under condition (2.4), the competition interface satisfies ϕ x n {n Ñ ξ˚pTxωq, given by (2.17). Moreover, each of these two trees contains at least one semi-infinite geodesic with asymptotic direction ξ˚pTxωq. Indeed, ξ˚pTxωq is the unique direction with the … view at source ↗
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Figure 2.3
Figure 2.3. Figure 2.3: The competition interface (middle path) separating the two ξ˚-directed geodesics. The left picture is a small portion of the right one. In the picture on the right the x-axis appears to be stretched, but the scales of the axes are in fact identical. 3. Busemann measu…
Figure 4.1
Figure 4.1. Figure 4.1: Left plot: An illustration of the duality relation between the edges of Gξ (black/thick) and those of G ˚ ξ (red/thin). Right plot: An illustration of a (blue/thick) north-east directed geodesic graph Gξ and its (red/thin) south-west directed dual G ˚ ξ . For ζ ĺ η i…
Figure 4.2
Figure 4.2. Figure 4.2: The edge px ` e1, x ` e2q is identified with the dual point x ˚ “ x ` ep ˚ 1 . only if x ´ ep ˚ 1 points to x ` ep ˚ 2 in Gζ´, and x ˚ points to x ˚ ´ e1 in G ˚ Yrζ,ηs if and only if x ˚ ´ ep ˚ 1 points to x ˚ ´ ep ˚ 2 in Gη`. Identify the space-time point x ` ep ˚ 1…
Figure 4.3
Figure 4.3. Figure 4.3: Four nested down-left pointing S ˚ rζ,ηs graphs in the square r´100, 100s 2 . Top to bottom, left to right, in reading order, rζ ¨ e1, η ¨ e1s equals r0.096, 0.772s, r0.219, 0.595s, r0.318, 0.476s, and r0.355, 0.436s. Two further nested subgraphs appear in [PITH_FUL…
Figure 4.4
Figure 4.4. Figure 4.4: Continuing with the simulation setting of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_4_4.png]
Figure 4.5
Figure 4.5. Figure 4.5: The flow of Busemann measures follows the arrows. The antidiagonal edge px ` e1, x ` e2q is identified with the dual point x ˚ “ x ` ep ˚ 1 . The Busemann measure µx`e1,x`e2 on this edge is composed of the mass flowing from the north and east, and it in turns divides…
Figure 7.1
Figure 7.1. Figure 7.1: Proof of Theorem 3.1. ξ` geodesics are in purple with medium thickness. ξ´ geodesics are in green and thin. If y R tu, vu, then u “ γ x,ξ´ m ă y ă v “ γ x,ξ` m (right picture in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_7_1.png]
Figure 8.1
Figure 8.1. Figure 8.1: The proofs of Lemma 8.2 (left) and Theorem 4.3 (right). ζ´ geodesics are in green and thin. η` geodesics are in purple with medium thickness. Directed edges in G ˚ Yrζ,ηs are in red/thick. White circles are points in Z 2 while points in Z 2˚ are filled in (red). Proo…
Figure 8.2
Figure 8.2. Figure 8.2: Illustration of the proof that the map x ˚ ÞÑ z ˚ is one-to-one. Since γ ˚ uses the edge pz ˚ ` e2, z˚q, it must coalesce at some point with π ˚. Point x ˚ itself cannot lie on γ ˚ because otherwise (8.1) forces γ ˚ to take the edge px ˚, x˚ ´ e2q and γ ˚ cannot foll…
Figure 8.3
Figure 8.3. Figure 8.3: Proof of Lemma 4.9 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_8_3.png]

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