An improved upper bound for critical value of the contact process on ℤ^d with d≥ 3

2018/02/07 by Xue, Xiaofeng
#FOS: Mathematics #Probability (math.PR)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1802.02394

Abstract

In this paper we give an improved upper bound for critical value λ_c of the basic contact process on the lattice ℤ^d with d≥ 3. As a direct corollary of out result, λ_c≤ 0.384. when d=3.

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