In and Out of Equilibrium 2

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Series Editors Charles Newman Sidney I. Resnick

In and Out of Equilibrium 2 Vladas Sidoravicius Maria Eulália Vares Editors

Birkhäuser Basel · Boston · Berlin

Editors: Vladas Sidoravicius Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) Estrada Dona Castorina, 110 Jardim Botanico CEP 22460-320 Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brasil e-mail: [email protected]

Maria Eulália Vares Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas Rua Dr. Xavier Sigaud, 150 Urca 22290-180 Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brasil e-mail: [email protected]

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 03D10, 14Q99, 20K01, 32G15,37A50, 82BXX, 82CXX, 86A10, 90B22, 96A17, 60FXX, 60GXX, 60H99, 60JXX, 60KXX, 62GXX, 62MXX, 62P12

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Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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M. Abadi Poisson Approximations via Chen-Stein for Non-Markov Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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E.D. Andjel and M. Sued An Inequality for Oriented 2-D Percolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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V. Beffara Is Critical 2D Percolation Universal? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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G. Ben Arous, V. Gayrard and A. Kuptsov A New REM Conjecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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I. Benjamini, O. Gurel-Gurevich and R. Izkovsky The Biham-Middleton-Levine Traffic Model for a Single Junction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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J. van den Berg, R. Brouwer and B. V´ Vagvolgyi ¨ Box-Crossings and Continuity Results for Self-Destructive Percolation in the Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 N. Berger and O. Zeitouni A Quenched Invariance Principle for Certain Ballistic Random Walks in i.i.d. Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 J. Bertoi