Threshold 2 contact processes on homogeneous trees

Abstract: We study the threshold

t h e t a g e q 2

contact process on a homogeneous tree

T_{b}

of degree

k a p p a = b + 1

, with infection parameter

l a m b d a g e q 0

and started from a product measure with density

p

. The corresponding mean-field model displays a discontinuous transition at a critical point

l a m b d a_{c}^{M F} (k a p p a, t h e t a)

and for

l a m b d a g e q l a m b d a_{c}^{M F} (k a p p a, t h e t a)

it survives iff

p g e q p_{c}^{M F} (k a p p a, t h e t a, l a m b d a)

, where this critical density satisfies

0 < p_{c}^{M F} (k a p p a, t h e t a, l a m b d a) < 1

,

l i m_{l a m b d a t o i n f t y} p_{c}^{M F} (k a p p a, t h e t a, l a m b d a) = 0

. For large

b

, we show that the process on

T_{b}

has a qualitatively similar behavior when

l a m b d a

is small, including the behavior at and close to the critical point

l a m b d a_{c} (T_{b}, t h e t a)

. In contrast, for large

l a m b d a

the behavior of the process on

T_{b}

is qualitatively distinct from that of the mean-field model in that the critical density has

p_{c} (T_{b}, t h e t a, i n f t y) := l i m_{l a m b d a t o i n f t y} p_{c} (T_{b}, t h e t a, l a m b d a) > 0

. We also show that

l i m_{b t o i n f t y} b l a m b d a_{c} (T_{b}, t h e t a) = P h i_{t h e t a}

, where

1 < P h i_{2} < P h i_{3} < ...

,

l i m_{t h e t a t o i n f t y} P h i_{t h e t a} = i n f t y

, and

0 < l i m i n f_{b t o i n f t y} b^{t h e t a (t h e t a - 1)} p_{c} (T_{b}, t h e t a, i n f t y) l e q l i m s u p_{b t o i n f t y} b^{t h e t a / (t h e t a - 1)} p_{c} (T_{b}, t h e t a, i n f t y) < i n f t y

.

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