Supercritical case of the upper-bound conjecture for chemical distance

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Let D(0,x)D(0,x) denote the chemical distance between 00 and xx, with D(0,x)=D(0,x)=\infty when they are disconnected, and let 1{0x}1_{\{0\leftrightarrow x\}} indicate that they are connected. Assume the hypotheses of the infinite-cluster upper-bound conjecture, including that almost surely there exists an infinite cluster, and additionally assume that the system is supercritical. Almost surely,

lim supx1{0x}D(0,x)x<.\limsup_{\|x\|\to\infty}\frac{1_{\{0\leftrightarrow x\}}D(0,x)}{\|x\|}<\infty.

Supercritical upper-bound conjecture. The displayed limsup is finite.

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Noam Berger, “A lower bound for the chemical distance in sparse long-range percolation models”, arXiv:math/0409021 (2004).

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