The critical value of the contact process with added and removed edges

DOI10.1007/S10959-005-7536-0MaRDI QIDQ2576808zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors P. Jung

Publication date 14 December 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0405045

zbMATH Keywords

critical valueinteracting particle systemphase transition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41)

Abstract: We show that the critical value for the contact process on a vertex-transitive graph G with finitely many edges added and/or removed is the same as the critical value for the contact process on G.

Review text

In this short well-written paper the author studies the influence of edding/removing finitely many edges of a vertex-transitive graph \(\mathcal{G}\) on the global survival critical value of the contact process on \(\mathcal{G}\). The answer got in the paper is that the mentioned transformation of the graph does not change the critical value. A number of topics connected with this result and/or with its proof have also been discussed. For the recent development on this subject see \textit{R. Pemantle} and \textit{A. M. Stacey} [Ann. Probab. 29, No.~4, 1563--1590 (2001; Zbl 1013.60078)].

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