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Rigorous lower bounds for extinction probabilities of the contact process

Part of: Special processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Aidan Sudbury
Aidan Sudbury*
Affiliation:
Monash University
*
∗ Postal address: School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University, PO Box 28M, VIC 3800, Australia. Email address: aidan.sudbury@sci.monash.edu.au
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Abstract

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Positive correlations for extinction probabilities in the contact process are used to obtain rigorous lower bounds.

Keywords

Extinctioninfinite particle systemcontact process

MSC classification

Primary: 60K35: Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory

Information

Type
Short Communications
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 42 , Issue 3 , September 2005 , pp. 902 - 904
Copyright
© Applied Probability Trust 2005 

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