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New Results for the Two-Stage Contact Process

Part of: Markov processes Mathematical biology in general

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2018

Eric Foxall
Eric Foxall*
Affiliation:
University of Victoria
*
∗ Postal address: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, PO Box 3060 STN CSC, Victoria, B.C. V8W 3R4, Canada. Email address: e.t.foxall@gmail.com
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Abstract

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In this paper, we continue the work started by Steve Krone on the two-stage contact process. We give a simplified proof of the duality relation and answer most of the open questions posed in Krone (1999). We also fill in the details of an incomplete proof.

Keywords

Contact processinteracting particle systems

MSC classification

Primary: 60J25: Continuous-time Markov processes on general state spaces 92B99: None of the above, but in this section
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 52 , Issue 1 , March 2015 , pp. 258 - 268
Copyright
© Applied Probability Trust 

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