Continuum Percolation in a Nonstabilizing Environment

Abstract

We prove nontrivial phase transitions for continuum percolation in a Boolean model based on a Cox point process with nonstabilizing directing measure. The directing measure, which can be seen as a stationary random environment for the classical Poisson-Boolean model, is given by a planar rectangular Poisson line process. This Manhattan grid type construction features long-range dependencies in the environment, leading to absence of a sharp phase transition for the associated Cox-Boolean model. Our proofs rest on discretization arguments and a comparison to percolation on randomly stretched lattices established in [Hof05].