The second lowest extremal invariant measure of the contact process

Annals of Probability

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1846-1871

  Salzano, Marcia ^a   Schonmann, Roberto H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complete convergence; Contact process; Critical points; Ergodic behavior; Graphs; Invariant measures; Partial convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031312118     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1023481114     Document Type: Article

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