Passage time of the frog model has a sublinear variance

Abstract

In this paper, we show that the first passage time in the frog model on ${\mathbb{Z}}^d$ with $d\ge 2$ has a sublinear variance. This implies that the central limit theorem does not holds at least with the standard diffusive scaling. The proof is based on the method introduced in \cite{BRo, DHS} combining with a control of the maximal weight of paths in locally dependent site-percolation. We also apply this method to get the linearity of the lengths of optimal paths..

24 pages, accepted for publication in Electronic Journal of Probability