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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 Zd\mathbb{Z}^d. The contact process acts as the random environment for the fleas. The fleas do not affect the animals, give birth at rate μ\mu when they are living on a host animal, and die at rate δ\delta 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}
}
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