The problem of finding the best path in a random medium is investigated. If the random medium is allowed to undergo slow drifts, the best path can be drastically different. The scaling of the excited states is also discussed. A host of new exponents are found for the 2d problem. The implications for the growing surfaces are also pointed out.
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Yicheng Zhang (1987) studied this question.
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