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Stochastic order for invariant measures of the contact process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

E. D. Andjel*
Affiliation:
CMI, Marseille
*
Postal address: CMI, 39 rue Joliot Curie, 13453 Marseille cedex 13, France. Email address: [email protected]

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.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 2003 

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