Route Lengths in Invariant Spatial Tree Networks

Abstract

Is there a constant $r_0$ such that, in any invariant tree network linking rate-$1$ Poisson points in the plane, the mean within-network distance between points at Euclidean distance $r$ is infinite for $r>r_0$? We prove a slightly weaker result. This is a continuum analog of a result of Benjamini et al (2001) on invariant spanning trees of the integer lattice.