Metastability for the contact process on the preferential attachment graph

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Abstract: We consider the contact process on the preferential attachment graph. The work of Berger, Borgs, Chayes and Saberi [BBCS1] confirmed physicists predictions that the contact process starting from a typical vertex becomes endemic for an arbitrarily small infection rate lambda with positive probability. More precisely, they showed that with probability lambdaTheta(1), it survives for a time exponential in the largest degree. Here we obtain sharp bounds for the density of infected sites at a time close to exponential in the number of vertices (up to some logarithmic factor).









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