Survival of contact processes on the hierarchical group

DOI10.1007/S00440-009-0214-XzbMATH Open1191.82028arXiv0808.3732OpenAlexW2106044339MaRDI QIDQ975306FDOQ975306

Siva R. Athreya, Jan M. Swart

Publication date: 9 June 2010

Published in: Zeitschrift für Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und Verwandte Gebiete (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider contact processes on the hierarchical group, where sites infect other sites at a rate depending on their hierarchical distance, and sites become healthy with a constant recovery rate. If the infection rates decay too fast as a function of the hierarchical distance, then we show that the critical recovery rate is zero. On the other hand, we derive sufficient conditions on the speed of decay of the infection rates for the process to exhibit a nontrivial phase transition between extinction and survival. For our sufficient conditions, we use a coupling argument that compares contact processes on the hierarchical group with freedom two with contact processes on a renormalized lattice. An interesting novelty in this renormalization argument is the use of a result due to Rogers and Pitman on Markov functionals.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3732

zbMATH Keywords

survivalcouplingrenormalization groupcontact processhierarchical group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Epidemiology (92D30) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Continuous-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J25) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20) Dynamic renormalization group methods applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C28)

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