O seminário será em inglês.
Speaker: Daniel Ungaretti (IM - UFRJ)
Title: The contact process on interchange process
June 9, from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Rio de Janeiro local time)
Abstract:
We introduce a model of epidemics among moving particles on any locally finite graph. At any time, each vertex is empty, occupied by a healthy particle, or occupied by an infected particle. Infected particles recover at rate 1 and transmit the infection to healthy particles at neighboring vertices at rate
. In addition, particles perform an interchange process with rate
, that is, the states of adjacent vertices are swapped independently at rate
, allowing the infection to spread also through the movement of infected particles. On
, we start with a single infected particle at the origin and with all the other vertices independently occupied by a healthy particle with probability
or empty with probability
. We define the threshold value
for
above which the infection persists with positive probability and analyze its asymptotic behavior in two regimes: as
for fixed p, in which we approach a mean-field behavior for the system, and as
for fixed p, in which we approach a system close to the contact process on a static random environment.
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