Exponential growth and continuous phase transitions for the contact process on trees

DOI10.1214/20-EJP483MaRDI QIDQ2201491zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Xiangying Huang

Publication date 29 September 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03330, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1594432885

zbMATH Keywords

Galton-Watson treesperiodic treesCMJ branching process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

Abstract: We study the supercritical contact process on Galton-Watson trees and periodic trees. We prove that if the contact process survives weakly then it dominates a supercritical Crump-Mode-Jagers branching process. Hence the number of infected sites grows exponentially fast. As a consequence we conclude that the contact process dies out at the critical value $lambd{a}_1$ for weak survival, and the survival probability $p(lambda)$ is continuous with respect to the infection rate $lambda$. Applying this fact, we show the contact process on a general periodic tree experiences two phase transitions in the sense that $lambd{a}_1<lambd{a}_2$, which confirms a conjecture of Stacey's cite{Stacey}. We also prove that if the contact process survives strongly at $lambda$ then it survives strongly at a $lambd{a}^{\prime }<lambda$, which implies that the process does not survive strongly at the critical value $lambd{a}_2$ for strong survival.

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