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The contact process on dynamical scale-free networks

Probability 2022-06-03 v1

Abstract

We investigate the contact process on four different types of scale-free inhomogeneous random graphs evolving according to a stationary dynamics, where each potential edge is updated with a rate depending on the strength of the adjacent vertices. Depending on the type of graph, the tail exponent of the degree distribution and the updating rate, we find parameter regimes of fast and slow extinction and in the latter case identify metastable exponents that undergo first order phase transitions.

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@article{arxiv.2206.01073,
  title  = {The contact process on dynamical scale-free networks},
  author = {Emmanuel Jacob and Amitai Linker and Peter Mörters},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.01073},
  year   = {2022}
}

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49 pages, 2 figures

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