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Exponential extinction time of the contact process on rank-one inhomogeneous random graphs

Probability 2017-09-20 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We show that the contact process on the rank-one inhomogeneous random graphs and Erdos-R{\'e}nyi graphs with mean degree large enough survives a time exponential in the size of these graphs for any positive infection rate. In addition, a metastable result for the extinction time is also proved.

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@article{arxiv.1602.02059,
  title  = {Exponential extinction time of the contact process on rank-one inhomogeneous random graphs},
  author = {Van Hao Can},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.02059},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

20 pages, accepted for publication in Journal of Theoretical Probability