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Contact process on interchange process

Probability 2025-09-04 v1

Abstract

We introduce a model of epidemics among moving particles on any locally finite graph. At any time, each vertex is empty, occupied by a healthy particle, or occupied by an infected particle. Infected particles recover at rate 11 and transmit the infection to healthy particles at neighboring vertices at rate λ\lambda. In addition, particles perform an interchange process with rate v\mathsf{v}, that is, the states of adjacent vertices are swapped independently at rate v\mathsf{v}, allowing the infection to spread also through the movement of infected particles. On Zd\mathbb{Z}^d, we start with a single infected particle at the origin and with all the other vertices independently occupied by a healthy particle with probability pp or empty with probability 1p1-p. We define λc(v,p)\lambda_c(\mathsf{v}, p) as the threshold value for λ\lambda above which the infection persists with positive probability and analyze its asymptotic behavior as v\mathsf{v} \to \infty for fixed pp.

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@article{arxiv.2509.02747,
  title  = {Contact process on interchange process},
  author = {M. Hilário and D. Ungaretti and D. Valesin and M. E. Vares},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.02747},
  year   = {2025}
}

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59 pages, 3 figures