A new proof that for the contact process on homogeneous trees local survival implies complete convergence

Annals of Probability

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1251-1258

  Salzano, Marcia ^a   Schonmann, Roberto H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complete convergence; Contact process; Ergodic behavior; Homogeneous trees; Local survival

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032379304     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1022855752     Document Type: Article

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