Contact process in an evolving random environment

DOI10.1214/23-EJP1002MaRDI QIDQ6177574zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marco Seiler, Anja Sturm

Publication date 17 January 2024

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.16270

zbMATH Keywords

contact processdynamical graphsevolving random environmentinteracting particle systemsphase transition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random graphs (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C80) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Processes in random environments (60K37) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

Abstract: In this paper we introduce a contact process in an evolving random environment (CPERE) on a connected and transitive graph with bounded degree, where we assume that this environment is described through an ergodic spin systems with finite range. We show that under a certain growth condition the phase transition of survival is independent of the initial configuration of the process. We study the invariant laws of the CPERE and show that under aforementioned growth condition the phase transition for survival coincides with the phase transition of non-triviality of the upper invariant law. Furthermore, we prove continuity properties for the survival probability and derive equivalent conditions for complete convergence, in an analogous way as for the classical contact process. We then focus on the special case, where the evolving random environment is described through a dynamical percolation. We show that the contact process on a dynamical percolation on the $d$-dimensional integer dies out a.s. at criticality and complete convergence holds for all parameter choices. In the end we derive some comparison results between a dynamical percolation and ergodic spin systems with finite range such that we get bounds on the survival probability of a contact process in an evolving random environment and we determine in this case that complete convergence holds in a certain parameter regime.

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