We give a counterexample to a conjecture of Hammersley and Welsh (1965) about the convexity of the time constant in first-passage percolation, as a functional on the space of distribution functions. The present counterexample only works for first-passage percolation on…

We prove that the Moderate Deviation Principle (MDP) holds for the trajectory of a locally square integrable martingale with bounded jumps as soon as its quadratic covariation, properly scaled, converges in probability at an exponential rate. A consequence of this…

We slightly improve the upper bounds of disconnection exponents for planar Brownian motion that we derived in an earlier paper. We also give a proof of the lower bound $1/(2\pi)$ for the disconnection exponent for one path.

Let $B$ be a two dimensional Brownian motion and let the frontier of $B[0,1]$ be defined as the set of all points in $B[0,1]$ that are in the closure of the unbounded connected component of its complement. We prove that…

Using Monte-Carlo simulations, we estimate numerically disconnection exponents for planar Brownian motions. These simulations tend to confirm conjectures by Duplantier and Mandelbrot.

This work was motivated by the recent work by H. Dette, J. Pitman and W.J. Studden on a new duality relation for random walks. In this note we consider the diffusion process limit of their result, and use the alternative…

Let $B$ be a Borel subset of $R^d$ and let $p(t,x,y)$ be the transition densities of Brownian motion killed on leaving $B$. Fix $x$ and $y$ in $B$. If $p(t,x,y)$ is positive for one $t$, it is positive for every…

We present an alternative particle picture for super-stable motion. It is based on a non-local branching mechanism in discrete time and only trivial space motion.

For a function $\ell$ satisfying suitable integrability (but not continuity) requirements, we construct a process $(B^\ell_u, 0 \leq u \leq 1)$ interpretable as Brownian excursion conditioned to have local time $\ell(\cdot)$ at time $1$. The construction is achieved by first…

Fractional Brownian motion belongs to a class of long memory Gaussian processes that can be represented as linear functionals of an infinite dimensional Markov process. This leads naturally to: An efficient algorithm to approximate the process. An ergodic theorem which…