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Existence of a stationary distribution for multi-dimensional infinite volume forest-fire processes

Probability 2012-03-27 v1

Abstract

Consider the following forest-fire process on a connected graph. Each site of the graph can be either occupied or vacant. A vacant site becomes occupied with rate 1. A site is ignited with rate lambda, and its whole occupied cluster burns instantaneously. The purpose of this paper is to show the existence of a stationary distribution for forest-fire processes on Z^d, for d >= 2. We define a distribution as a limit of a sequence of invariant distributions of finite volume forest-fire processes, and then show it is a stationary distribution for forest-fire processes on Z^d, d>=2.

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@article{arxiv.1203.5533,
  title  = {Existence of a stationary distribution for multi-dimensional infinite volume forest-fire processes},
  author = {Alice Stahl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.5533},
  year   = {2012}
}