Complete convergence theorem for a two-level contact process
Probability
2022-07-07 v3
Abstract
We study a two-level contact process. We think of fleas living on a species of animals. The animals are a supercritical contact process in . The contact process acts as the random environment for the fleas. The fleas do not affect the animals, give birth at rate when they are living on a host animal, and die at rate when they do not have a host animal. The main result is that if the contact process is supercritical and the fleas survive then the complete convergence theorem holds. This is done using a block construction so as a corollary we conclude that the fleas die out at their critical value.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1904.08401,
title = {Complete convergence theorem for a two-level contact process},
author = {Ruibo Ma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.08401},
year = {2022}
}