Contact process on interchange process
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 and transmit the infection to healthy particles at neighboring vertices at rate . In addition, particles perform an interchange process with rate , that is, the states of adjacent vertices are swapped independently at rate , allowing the infection to spread also through the movement of infected particles. On , we start with a single infected particle at the origin and with all the other vertices independently occupied by a healthy particle with probability or empty with probability . We define as the threshold value for above which the infection persists with positive probability and analyze its asymptotic behavior as for fixed .
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
59 pages, 3 figures