Applying monoid duality to a double contact process

DOI10.1214/23-EJP961MaRDI QIDQ6165979zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jan Niklas Latz, Jan M. Swart

Publication date 2 August 2023

Published in Electronic Journal of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06017

zbMATH Keywords

annihilating branching processcancellative contact processcontact processdualityinteracting particle systemmonoid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic monoids (20M32) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

Abstract: In this paper we use duality techniques to study a combination of the well-known contact process (CP) and the somewhat less-known annihilating branching process. As the latter can be seen as a cancellative version of the contact process, we rebrand it as the cancellative contact process (cCP). Our process of interest will consist of two entries, the first being a CP and the second being a cCP. We call this process the double contact process (2CP) and prove that it has (depending on the model parameters) at most one invariant law under which ones are present in both processes. In particular, we can choose the model parameter in such a way that CP and cCP are monotonely coupled. In this case also the above mentioned invariant law will have the property that, under it, ones in the cCP can only be present at sites where there are also ones in the CP. Along the way we extend the dualities for Markov processes discovered in our paper "Commutative monoid duality" to processes on infinite state spaces so that they, in particular, can be used for interacting particle systems.

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