Connectedness of Poisson cylinders in Euclidean space

Abstract

We consider the Poisson cylinder model in ${\mathbb R}^d$, $d\ge 3$. We show that given any two cylinders ${\mathfrak c}_1$ and ${\mathfrak c}_2$ in the process, there is a sequence of at most $d-2$ other cylinders creating a connection between ${\mathfrak c}_1$ and ${\mathfrak c}_2$. In particular, this shows that the union of the cylinders is a connected set, answering a question appearing in a previous paper. We also show that there are cylinders in the process that are not connected by a sequence of at most $d-3$ other cylinders. Thus, the diameter of the cluster of cylinders equals $d-2$.

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