Multiple phase transitions in long-range first-passage percolation on square lattices

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We consider a model of long-range first-passage percolation on the $d$ dimensional square lattice $Z^d$ in which any two distinct vertices $x, y \in Z^d$ are connected by an edge having exponentially distributed passage time with mean $||x-y||^{\alpha+o(1)}$, where $\alpha>0$ is a fixed parameter and $||\cdot||$ is the $\ell_1$-norm on $Z^d$.

• We analyze the asymptotic growth rate of the set $B_t$, which consists of all $x \in Z^d$ such that the first-passage time between the origin 0 and $x$ is at most $t$, as $t\to\infty$.
• We show that depending on the values of $\alpha$ there are four growth regimes: (i) instantaneous growth for $\alpha<d$, (ii) stretched exponential growth for $\alpha\in (d,2d)$, (iii) superlinear growth for $\alpha\in (2d,2d+1)$ and finally (iv) linear growth for $\alpha>2d+1$ like the nearest-neighbor first-passage percolation model corresponding to $\alpha=\infty$.