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The winner takes it all but one
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics.
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2404-5161
2023 (English)In: Journal of Applied Probability, ISSN 0021-9002, E-ISSN 1475-6072, Vol. 61, no 1, p. 137-152Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We study competing first passage percolation on graphs generated by the configuration model with infinite-mean degrees. Initially, two uniformly chosen vertices are infected with a type 1 and type 2 infection, respectively, and the infection then spreads via nearest neighbors in the graph. The time it takes for the type 1 (resp. 2) infection to traverse an edge e is given by a random variable X1(e) (resp. X2(e)) and, if the vertex at the other end of the edge is still uninfected, it then becomes type 1 (resp. 2) infected and immune to the other type. Assuming that the degrees follow a power-law distribution with exponent τ ∈ (1, 2), we show that with high probability as the number of vertices tends to infinity, one of the infection types occupies all vertices except for the starting point of the other type. Moreover, both infections have a positive probability of winning regardless of the passage-time distribution. The result is also shown to hold for the erased configuration model, where self-loops are erased and multiple edges are merged, and when the degrees are conditioned to be smaller than nα for some α > 0.

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2023. Vol. 61, no 1, p. 137-152
Keywords [en]
Random graphs, configuration model, first passage percolation, competing growth, coexistence
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Probability Theory and Statistics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-233987DOI: 10.1017/jpr.2023.23ISI: 001010503400001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85160857887OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-233987DiVA, id: diva2:1902733
Available from: 2024-10-02 Created: 2024-10-02 Last updated: 2024-10-02Bibliographically approved

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