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Malo Hillairet: Generalization of the BKS Theorem and Noise Sensitivity in First-Passage Percolation

Master Thesis

Time: Wed 2024-05-29 15.15 - 16.15

Location: Cramerrummet (Albano, SU)

Respondent: Malo Hillairet

Supervisor: Daniel Ahlberg

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Abstract.

Ahlberg and de la Riva recently proved noise sensitivity of the indicator of a travel time being above its median as the first evidence of noise sensitive behavior in first-passage percolation. We extend the BKS theorem from indicator functions from the hypercube to real-valued functions from the hypercube, making use of the hypercontractive inequality in a Markovian framework instead of a Fourier analysis framework. This allows us to deduce noise sensitivity of the first-passage percolation left-right travel time in the square with restricted vertical fluctuations in the case of a binary weight distribution, following the work of Ahlberg and de la Riva.