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Stochastic order for invariant measures of the contact process

Part of: Special processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

E. D. Andjel
E. D. Andjel*
Affiliation:
CMI, Marseille
*
∗Postal address: CMI, 39 rue Joliot Curie, 13453 Marseille cedex 13, France. Email address: andjel@cmi.univ-mrs.fr
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Abstract

We show that the second lowest invariant measure of the contact process, introduced by Salzano and Schonmann (1997), is stochastically lower that any invariant measure which puts no mass on the empty configuration.

Keywords

Contact processstochastic ordersecond lowest invariant measure

MSC classification

Primary: 60K35: Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory
Type
Short Communications
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 40 , Issue 4 , September 2003 , pp. 1155 - 1157
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 2003 

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