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Main Author: Velasco, Sonia
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11963
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author Velasco, Sonia
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contents We introduce an interacting particle system which models the inherited sterility method. Individuals evolve on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ according to a contact process with parameter $λ>0$. With probability $p \in [0,1]$ an offspring is fertile and can give birth to other individuals at rate $λ$. With probability $1-p$, an offspring is sterile and blocks the site it sits on until it dies. The goal is to prove that at fixed $λ$, the system survives for large enough $p$ and dies out for small enough $p$. The model is not attractive, since an increase of fertile individuals potentially causes that of sterile ones. However, thanks to a comparison argument with attractive models, we are able to answer our question.
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spellingShingle Extinction and survival in inherited sterility
Velasco, Sonia
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We introduce an interacting particle system which models the inherited sterility method. Individuals evolve on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ according to a contact process with parameter $λ>0$. With probability $p \in [0,1]$ an offspring is fertile and can give birth to other individuals at rate $λ$. With probability $1-p$, an offspring is sterile and blocks the site it sits on until it dies. The goal is to prove that at fixed $λ$, the system survives for large enough $p$ and dies out for small enough $p$. The model is not attractive, since an increase of fertile individuals potentially causes that of sterile ones. However, thanks to a comparison argument with attractive models, we are able to answer our question.
title Extinction and survival in inherited sterility
topic Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11963