The Contact Process Can Survive on a Slightly Subcritical Dynamical Percolation Cluster
Probability
2026-02-24 v1
Abstract
The contact process on dynamic edges (CPDE) is a contact process evolving on a dynamic environment given by a dynamical percolation on the edges of Z d\,: each edge updates its state to open or closed with respective rates vp and v(1 -p). By coupling a well-chosen subset of once infected sites in the CPDE with a cluster of some supercritical percolation on the edges of Z d , we prove that, for every dimension d 2, we can find some slightly subcritical p < pc(d) such that for every update speed v > 0, the contact process with large enough infection rate can survive. This extends the result for dimension 1 proved by Linker and Remenik in [LR20].
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@article{arxiv.2602.19794,
title = {The Contact Process Can Survive on a Slightly Subcritical Dynamical Percolation Cluster},
author = {Aurelia Deshayes and Régine Marchand},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.19794},
year = {2026}
}