The Contact Process on Periodic Trees

Authors Yufeng Jiang, Remy Kassem, Grayson York, Brandon Zhao, Xiangying Huang, Matthew Junge, Rick Durrett

Publication date 6 August 2018

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35)

Abstract: A little over 25 years ago Pemantle pioneered the study of the contact process on trees, and showed that the critical values

l a m b d a_{1}

and

l a m b d a_{2}

for global and local survival were different. Here, we will consider the case of trees in which the degrees of vertices are periodic. We will compute bounds on

l a m b d a_{1}

and

l a m b d a_{2}

and for the corresponding critical values

l a m b d a_{g}

and

l a m b d a_{e} l l

for branching random walk. Much of what we find for period two

(a, b)

trees was known to Pemantle. However, two significant new results give sharp asymptotics for the critical value

l a m b d a_{2}

of

(1, n)

trees and generalize that result to the

(a_{1}, l d o t s, a_{k}, n)

tree when

m a x_{i} a_{i} l e n^{1 - e p s i l o n}

and

a_{1} c d o t s a_{k} = n^{b}

. We also give results for

l a m b d a_{g}

and

l a m b d a_{e} l l

on

(a, b, c)

trees. Since the values come from solving cubic equations, the explicit formulas are not pretty, but it is surprising that they depend only on

a + b + c

and

a b c

.

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