Duality and complete convergence for multi-type additive growth models (Q2806343)

In the Introduction, the author recalls the notion of contact process and three properties of it: additivity, existence of a dual process, and preservation of positive correlations. They suffice to prove complete convergence. The goal of this work is to consider a wider class of processes called here ``multi-type particle systems'', which have the same properties. In the case of growth models, a generalized version of the properties is presented.NEWLINENEWLINENext, the author proves that additivity is equivalent to the existence of a dual process in the context of his class of multi-type particle systems. A notion of ``multicolor systems'' is defined and the graphical method is recalled.NEWLINENEWLINEConcerning the preservation of positive correlations, a necessary and sufficient condition is given.NEWLINENEWLINEFinally, a subclass of models (including the two-stage contact process and a household model) is described for which the complete convergence on \(\mathbb{Z}^d\) holds.NEWLINENEWLINESome theoretical examples are presented in the paper.