Continuum Percolation in a Nonstabilizing Environment

We prove 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. The phase transitions are established under individually as well as jointly varying parameters. Our proofs rest on discretization arguments and a comparison to percolation on randomly stretched lattices established in Hoffman 2005.