From survival to extinction of the contact process by the removal of a single edge

DOI10.1214/16-ECP11MaRDI QIDQ321139zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Réka Szabó, Daniel Valesin

Publication date 7 October 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.06564, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ecp/1472144932

zbMATH Keywords

contact processinteracting particle systemsphase transition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

Abstract: We give a construction of a tree in which the contact process with any positive infection rate survives but, if a certain privileged edge $e^{\ast }$ is removed, one obtains two subtrees in which the contact process with infection rate smaller than $1/4$ dies out.

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