Remarks on renewal theory for percolation processes

Abstract

We extend some results of Hammersley and Welsh concerning first-passage percolation on the two-dimensional integer lattice. Our results include: (i) weak renewal theorems for the unrestricted reach processes; (ii) an L 1-ergodic theorem for the unrestricted first-passage time from (0, 0) to the line X = n; and (iii) weakening of the boundedness restrictions on the underlying distribution in Hammersley and Welsh's weak renewal theorems for the cylinder reach processes.